"When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism." ― Jim Hightower Topic(s): Politics More From Jim Hightower "The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government." "This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption." "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow." More In Politics "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."― Peggy Noonan "The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics."― Michael Pollan "So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy."― Roger Nash Baldwin