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When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
— Cullen Hightower
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
— Cullen Hightower
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
— Jim Hightower
Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It's just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.
— Grace Hightower
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
— Cullen Hightower
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
— Cullen Hightower
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
— Cullen Hightower
Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.
— Cullen Hightower
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
— Cullen Hightower
He was drop-dead gorgeous and I, well I was just ... dead. (Tera Hightower, Dead Chick Walking)
— Ace Antonio Hall
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
— Cullen Hightower
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
— Jim Hightower
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.
— Jim Hightower
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
— Cullen Hightower
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
— 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
Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
— Jim Hightower
Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
— Jim Hightower
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
— Jim Hightower
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..
— Cullen Hightower
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
— Cullen Hightower
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
— Cullen Hightower
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
— Grace Hightower
Money was inventedso we could know exactly how much we owe. — Cullen Hightower
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
— Cullen Hightower
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
— Jim Hightower
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
— Cullen Hightower
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
— Jim Hightower
When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.
— Jim Hightower
Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
— Jim Hightower
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
— Cullen Hightower
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
— Cullen Hightower
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
— Jim Hightower
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
— Jim Hightower
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
— Cullen Hightower
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
— Cullen Hightower
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
— Cullen Hightower
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
— Jim Hightower
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
— Cullen Hightower
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
— Cullen Hightower
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
— Cullen Hightower
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
— Cullen Hightower
Strangers are what friends are made of.
— Cullen Hightower
It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.
— Cullen Hightower
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
— Cullen Hightower
Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
— Jim Hightower
Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest.
— Cullen Hightower
Lexington is not big enough to have clubs with long lines, but at least they don't have velvet ropes.
— Lynn S. Hightower
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
— Cullen Hightower
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
— Jim Hightower
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
— Cullen Hightower
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is it'll drive you to use drugs. — Jim Hightower
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
— Jim Hightower
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
— Cullen Hightower
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
— Jim Hightower
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
— Cullen Hightower
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
— Cullen Hightower
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
— Jim Hightower
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
— Jim Hightower
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
— Cullen Hightower
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
— Grace Hightower
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
— Cullen Hightower
A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.
— Cullen Hightower
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.
— Jim Hightower
Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.
— Jim Hightower
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
— Jim Hightower
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
— Cullen Hightower
We all like to see everybody make a profit ... a very little.
— Cullen Hightower
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
— Cullen Hightower
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.
— Jim Hightower
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
— Cullen Hightower
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
— Cullen Hightower
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
— Jim Hightower
You have to learn to read between the lies.
— Jim Hightower
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
— Cullen Hightower
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
— Jim Hightower
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
— Cullen Hightower
Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
— Cullen Hightower
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
— Jim Hightower
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
— Cullen Hightower
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
— Cullen Hightower
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
— Cullen Hightower
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
— Jim Hightower
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
— Cullen Hightower
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
— Cullen Hightower
I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.
— Grace Hightower
