Cullen Hightower Quotes

“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”

“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.”

“When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”

“Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.”

“There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”

“Look behind you now.Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful sense that something momentous is about to happen?... Perhaps, then, this is the hour that Mary Hightower takes to the sky with thousands Afterlights heading toward Memphis.... Perhaps this is the moment that Nick, the Chocolate Ogre, arrives in the same city in search for Allie, only to find that he has no idea where to look.... Perhaps this is the very instant that a monster called the McGill arrives there as well, aching to ease his pain by sharing his misery - not only with his new minions, but with anyone he can.... And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the covergence of the wrong, of the right, and the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep.... For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of doubt, which is which.”