Jim Hightower

Person · Open Library

Born

1943

Works

11

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

667

Total plays

9,436

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom <a href="https://

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,424x

2. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

   · 2009 · cited 14,217x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,815x

5. Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,625x

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Quotes

• “There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
• “The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.”
• “If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”
• “Populism is at its essence [...] just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. [...] One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.”
• “Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclosure program. Oh, good. They're going to tell us they're stealing from us. But at least we're going to know.”
• “The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.”

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