You were the best qualified for that job, but they had to give it to a minority.
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The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, ... By conducting five nuclear tests India made a major miscalculation not merely about the United States but about India's own capability. The Indian government has deluded itself into the absurd assumption that the possession of nuclear weapons will make India into a superpower at a time when hundreds of millions of India's people are in abject poverty.Jesse Helms
It depends on whether this is just a temporary lull. If it's a temporary lull, we'll have to leave the people there for a while, ... But if it's for real, then we ought to make plans to bring those folks home.
Jesse Helms
Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
Jesse Helms
This is a sentimental time, ... It's the end of it. I have thoroughly enjoyed my life in the public view.
Jesse Helms
Giving permanent normal trade relations to the government of China will destroy an important lever that we now have and we have had to influence Chinese behavior, ... We are tossing it aside.
Jesse Helms
Bill Clinton does not understand that, ... He thinks he's the king. And he makes decisions that he expects you to follow, and I'm not going to follow a lot of things that he did.
Jesse Helms
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