64 Quotes by Jesse Helms

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

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

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.

To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

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

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.

The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.