Jesse Helms
Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr.was an American politician and a leader in the conservative movement. He was elected five times as a Republican to the United States Senate from North Carolina. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001 he had a major voice in foreign policy. Helms helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, focusing on Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House as well as helping many local and regional candidates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1921
CityMonroe, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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.
If the president does so, the treaty will effectively be dead, ... The decision, you see, is the president's and the president's alone.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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.
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
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.
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.
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.