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Jesse Helms Inspirational Quotes (27)

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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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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 U.N.
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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 factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.
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Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.
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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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America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
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Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.
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What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to call me a bigot, fine.
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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 do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.
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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 me.
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If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
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The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.
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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 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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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
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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 to defend the sanctity of marriage.
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Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.
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It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease
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Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
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