Jim Hightower Quotes (40 Quotes)

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.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

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

I thought our kids bounced back well. We kind of combined our Tuesday practice into a typical SaturdayMonday 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.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

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.

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He's a truly gifted athlete. It takes an awful lot of discipline (to play against Williams), but even discipline is not enough. You end up in one-on-one situations and some of the times our ones won't be as good as their ones. We have to do a good job of

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

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

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.

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

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

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.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

I thought they might (go for the touchdown), ... but how can you say that was a bad call It just didn't work out for them this time.

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.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

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.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

There won't be any trick-or-treating with him this year,

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

He says he's a compassionate conservative. I say he's a crony capitalist.

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

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

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

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.

The governor operates in a very closed loop, ... I think he actually means well, but he's sealed off from the real world.

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

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