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If you want to call me a bigot, fine.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Call Me
Fine
Want
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Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Homosexual
Sick
Weak
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Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Politics
Internet
People
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Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Zoos
Chapel Hill
Fence
Hills
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All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Men
Enterprise
Religious
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Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Democracy
Good Things
Hands
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If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Jesus
Metrics
Use
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Bodyguard
Clinton
Watches
Mr
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It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Disease
Disgusting
Responsible
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What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Hard Work
Rewards
Suggesting
Wells
Worth It
Work Hard Work I Am
Slow
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They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Daughter
Parent
Son
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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Encouragement
Government
Protect
Tradition
Want
Family Faith Freedom
Traditions
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
May
Nations
People
Reform
Surprise
United Nations
Advocate
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We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Principles
Reproach
Support
Way
Claim
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I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Chinese
President
Rubber
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Believe
Goal
People
Willing
Work Believe People
Reach
Young People
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Carolina
Mad
North Carolina
Surprise
Newspaper
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I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Believe
Fighting
Strong
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
New York
America
World
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Running
Challenges
Founders
Principles
Sight
Mattered
Whenever
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Government
Accustomed
Big Government
Choices
Conservatism
Entitlement
Liberals
Promoted
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Carolina
Colorful
Doe
Figures
North Carolina
Political
Excel
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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!
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Marijuana
Smoking
Two
Vietnamese
Cigarettes
Recently
Same Time
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Example
Opponents
Secret
Study
Winning
Good Your More
Good Example
My Friend
Opponent
Representative
Robin
Votes
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There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Differences
Race
Two
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
New York
Homosexual
Persons
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Influence
Demanding
Interests
Removing
Served
Un
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Influence
Reform
United States
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It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Acceptable
Being Yourself
Conservative
Term
Use
Describe
Truly
Uses
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Abortion
Sanctity
Sanctity Of Marriage
Senate
Would Be
Defend
Fought
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Demand
Lottery
Needs
Welcome
Spent
Value
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Men
Forever
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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Media
States
Years
Liberal
Passed
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Democratic
Democratic Party
Groups
Important People Real
Named
Washington
Educating
People Important Real
Important Roles
Real Issues
Subsequent
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Bureaucracy
People
Providing
Schemes
Support
Afford
Eats
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I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Wisdom
Behalf
Decision
Important
Speak
Decisions
Seek
Tried
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Wise
Agree
Democrat
Republican
Young
Republicans
Lady
Remain
Stood
Young Lady
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Opportunity
America
Labor
Moral
People
Protect
All People
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Daughter
Race
White
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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 elderly are acceptable behavior.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Learning
Children
Class
School
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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 he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Dancing
Fashion
Thinking
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Core
Dedicated
Firsts
Groups
Organized
People
Campaign
Congressional
Republicans
Volunteered
Young People
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The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Dedication
Errors
Knowing
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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?
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Believe
Bologna
Causes
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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.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Government
Christian
Religious
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This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Order
Past
Rights
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We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Country
Hate
School
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On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.
Jesse Helms / Former United States Senator
Fighting
Thoughtful
Winning
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