Jim Hightower

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

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

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

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.