64 Quotes by Jesse Helms

Extended metaphor is like a carton of milk without an expiration date.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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