Jesse Helms Quotes (64 Quotes)

Over 12 years and nearly two Senate terms, Wellstone never wavered in his convictions, but he gradually adjusted his style to the courtly atmosphere of the Senate. Just how well he had adapted was evident in the hours after his campaign plane crashed two miles from a small airport last Friday 175 miles north of Minneapolis. (Also aboard were Wellstone's wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three campaign-staff members and two pilots. There were no survivors.) Despite the marked contrast between Paul's and my views on matters of government and politics, ... he was my friend. And I was his.

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.

to sacrifice Taiwan's security in order to appease the dictators in Beijing.

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.

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.

will be based on the truth and not the deliberate inaccuracies those who disagreed with me took such delight in repeating.

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

Not withstanding our differences, Mrs. Albright is a lady who understands Congress, she understands the important role that Congress must play in developing U.S. foreign policy. However, my support for the nominee should in no way be misconstrued as an endorsement of the Clinton administration's conduct of foreign policy.

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

The campaign was never about Mr. Gantt being black it was always and only about him being a liberal,

It had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high-risk populations, ... I was wrong.

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.

Mr. Helms retired in 2003, and it was clear that his presence in Washington is sorely missed. He did not speak at the event. (His wife, Dorothy Dot ... memory problems and is no longer giving interviews or speaking publicly.

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.