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…
• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and…
• The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.
• White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and…
• Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right…
• To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that…
• All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.
• Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
• They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.
• I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be…
• Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.
• Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
• If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
• I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about…
• 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!
• I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
• That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could…
• It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
• 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…
• 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…

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