Jim Hightower Quotes

• 

  Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Party
• 

  The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience, Courage

• The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

  Jim Hightower

• We’re a very young football team. We have a long ways to go before we can compete against the better people on our schedule. We have a young offense, particularly in places that handle the ball.

  Jim Hightower

• Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn’t make a good landfill.

  Jim Hightower

• He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.

  Jim Hightower

• This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

  Jim Hightower

• His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament. He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.

  Jim Hightower

• Like us, Carencro is playing a lot of sophomores. They have great tradition and they’re very talented. We’ll have to eliminate our mistakes so we can give them a good game.

  Jim Hightower

• We just made a lot of mistakes in the jamboree.

  Jim Hightower

• I think it was just a combination of the two. We played pretty well on defense, and their youth really showed. Just like our youth showed on offense at times. But I’m very pleased. We haven’t been 1-0 in a long time.

  Jim Hightower

• In the second half our offense got in gear. We played pretty well and mixed it up. We had good balance in the second half. I thought Spencer Hebert did a good job running the ball tonight and Bubba Taylor had a nice long run.

  Jim Hightower

• Our defense dominated most of the night. We ended up allowing -20 yards rushing and six yards of total offense. The defense did a super job.

  Jim Hightower

• We just had a few plays missed by a hair. We weren’t consistent on offense. We need to regroup and see if we can be a little better next week.

  Jim Hightower

• There won’t be any trick-or-treating with him this year.

  Jim Hightower

• I thought our kids bounced back well. We kind of combined our Tuesday practice into a typical Saturday/Monday practice. We just had to adjust our schedule slightly. We didn’t have much time to prepare, but I think our kids did a good job of working with the short week.

  Jim Hightower

• I think our kids are very aware of the situation. We realize how blessed we are to still be together and practicing. In the blink of an eye, kids have had seasons cut short or eliminated. We’re practicing with a sense of thankfulness.

  Jim Hightower

• My heart goes out to all those people.

  Jim Hightower

• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

  Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower (27)

Birth:	11th January, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Columnist, Radio Personality

About

James Allen Hightower was born in Denison, Texas, USA. He is an American syndicated columnist, political activist, radio personality and author. He served as 8th Agriculture Commissioner of Texas from 1983 to 1991. He earned a BA degree in government from the University of North Texas, Denton. He was the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer in 1976. Since 1993, he has produced Hightower Radio, a daily two-minute commentary carried by over 130 affiliates. He also hosted a weekend talk show on the American Broadcasting Company radio network and a weekday midday talk show on the United Broadcasting Network. He currently writes a nationally syndicated column carried by seventy-five independent weekly newspapers and other publications through Creators Syndicate. He also writes for The Progressive Populist. He has written several books include: Hard tomatoes, hard times, Eat Your Heart Out, After They Join, Thieves in high places, Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush, and Swim against the Current. He is a recipient of the 2009 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

Related Authors

• Eldridge Cleaver
• Bobby Sands
• Dudley Field Malone
• Faye Wattleton
• Walter Wink
• Holly Near
• Anita Roddick
• Norma McCorvey
• Linda McCartney
• Kenneth E. Boulding

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st November

Births

• 1870 - Mary Johnston
• 1912 - Eleanor Powell
• 1870 - Alexander Berkman
• 1965 - Reggie Lewis
• 1953 - Tina Brown

Deaths

• 1922 - Ricardo Flores Magon
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay
• 1959 - Max Baer
• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1926 - Joseph McKenna