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Jim Hightower

"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.'"

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"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.'"

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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."

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"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."

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"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

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"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."

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"Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters."

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"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."

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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."

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"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."

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"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."

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"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."

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"If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?"
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"When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
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"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."
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"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."
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"There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos."
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"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."
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