Jesse Helms Quotes
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The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
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There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.
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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
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Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
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I didn't come to Washington to be a 'yes man' for any president, Democrat or Republican. I didn't come to Washington to get along and win any popularity contests.
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The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
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The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
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I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
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Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
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It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.
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I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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Voters 'sent me to Washington to vote no against excessive Federal spending, against forced busing of little schoolchildren, and to vote no against the forces who have driven God out of the classroom.
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The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
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I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she cries.' in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate
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In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
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I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
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It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.
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White women in Washington who have been raped and mugged on the streets in broad daylight have experienced the most revolting sort of violation of their civil rights. The hundreds of others who had their purses snatched last year by Negro hoodlums may understandably insist that their right to walk the street unmolested was violated.
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We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.