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

Jesse Helms Quotes

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

— Jesse Helms

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

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

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

— Jesse Helms

Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He’d better have a bodyguard.

— Jesse Helms

Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

— Jesse Helms

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

— Jesse Helms

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

— Jesse Helms

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

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

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

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

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

— Jesse Helms

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

— Jesse Helms

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

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

— Jesse Helms

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president’s plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

— Jesse Helms

It’s their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease.

— Jesse Helms

Our constituency aren’t the type of people to be on the Internet.

— Jesse Helms

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
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