Jesse Helms Quotes (64 Quotes)


    The Foreign Relations Committee will move with haste to confirm Gen. Powell, so that he is available to serve the president on his first day in office.

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


    This is a sentimental time, ... It's the end of it. I have thoroughly enjoyed my life in the public view.

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


    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.

    Terrorists around the world will realize that America's differences end at the water's edge, and that the United States' political leadership always has, and always will stand united in the face of international terrorism,

    I'm not calling William Weld a skunk. But if you get into a certain kind of contest, you get your shoes wet. I'm not going to pick up his challenge. What he would like most in the world is for me to fire back so he could fire back.

    I don't want to attack him, but there are too many things that are too worrying for me in his background and I suspect there are a lot of senators that feel that way.

    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.

    If the president does so, the treaty will effectively be dead, ... The decision, you see, is the president's and the president's alone.

    As you may know, I've just completed my memoir for Random House. Many of the questions you've asked are discussed at length in there.

    Joe Biden and I consulted in my office Wednesday night past, for about four and a half hours and we covered 21 differences and resolved them.

    You were the best qualified for that job, but they had to give it to a minority.

    His health is generally very good, ... He does have some memory problems. For that reason he is not making speeches or giving live interviews.

    It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

    I hope, and in fact I know, that they didn't just represent what is best about North Carolina. They represented what is best about America.

    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.

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

    Certainly, before anybody jumps on the president for this six-month suspension, it would be wise to consider the other salutary initiatives that the president is putting into force. The president is, in fact, taking a very tough line which is certain to make Fidel Castro squirm,

    Saying he didn't particularly relish raining on their parade, ... perhaps uncomfortable votes -- on a range of issues relating to China.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    We don't need to worry about the Indian nuclear tests if India has agreed not to have these weapons in the first place,

    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.

    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!

    As for Mr. Milosevic's future, I don't care one way or the other if he lives out his days in sunny Cyprus or if he will agree to step aside and make way for democracy in Serbia, the important thing is that he be removed from power, whether voluntarily or not, and now,

    This is a moment of truth for Pakistan as a nation,

    I will never support the lifting of the Glenn Amendment's sanctions on India unless they abandon all nuclear ambitions,

    I am astonished that the Indian government was able to catch the U.S. intelligence capability so sound asleep at the switch,

    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.

    It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

    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.

    to discuss a history of countless failed nominations in the past 10 years which were denied hearings by the chairman or the ranking member.

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

    I believe it is a certainty that all four of the nominees announced today by the president will be viewed favorably by most senators,

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

    This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

    We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

    We need to face up to the fact that the nation's freedom has been put in danger by the very people who claim to uphold it, with their claim that freedom of speech gives them license to say anything - or do anything - because they are simply being 'informative,'

    I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

    My objection to William Weld wasn't based on the way he conducted himself as governor or even how he would conduct himself as an ambassador in a place other than Mexico. India was where I wanted to send him,

    It is bitterly ironic that the Clinton administration is rushing to send Elian Gonzalez back to a country that has just been singled out by the U. N. for its systematic violation of human rights.

    John Roberts and I worked on a response to that letter

    Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

    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.

    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.

    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.


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