Top 23 Quotes by Jesse Helms

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.