Jesse Helms says:
Hey! I'm the Biggest BIGOT Here!
Caveman
I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true.
I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men
are equal, be they slants, beaners or niggers.
Jesse Helms, North Carolina Progressive, February 6, 1985,
quoted from the Democratic Alliance, "Yes, They Really Said It!"
Dan Quayle
"...in the l8 years and 5 months I've been in the senate, none, none
have been more capable than Dan Quayle."
Democracy
"Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into
the wrong hands."
Senator Jesse Helms
Error
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.
Jesse Helms, campaign debate, News & Observer, July 30, 1984
Hearing Aid
"Let me adjust my hearing aid. It could not accommodate the
decibels of the Senator from Massachusetts. I can't match
him in decibels or Jezebels, or anything else apparently."
Jesse Helms (1993 Senate floor debate with Ted Kennedy)
Heart Valve Surgery
It's no piece of cake, but it sure beats listening to Ted
Kennedy on the Senate floor.
Senator Jesse Helms
Homosexuals
"If homosexuals would only stop doing what they're doing,
There wouldn't be any more AIDS."
Latins
"All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the
volatile reaction." stated by Helms after Mexicans protested his
visit to Mexico in 1986 to investigate allegations of political
corruption.
Helms was investigating as to whether or not there might be communists
in Mexico)
Liberalism
"Atheism and socialism -- or liberalism, which tends in the
same direction -- are inseparable entities. When you have men
who no longer believe that God is in charge of human affairs,
you have men attempting to take the place of God by means of
the Superstate."
Jesse Helms (1973)
Negro
"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."
"The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint
that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic,
and interfere with other men's rights."
When a caller to CNN's Larry King Live show praised guest
Jesse Helms for "everything you've done to help keep
down the niggers," Helms' response was to salute the camera
and say, "Well, thank you, I think."
(Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)
New York Times and The Washington Post
"The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested
with homosexuals themselves."
The Post, he charged, "caters to homosexual groups.
Just about every person down there is homosexual or lesbian,"
Metric System
If God had wanted us to use the metric system,
Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
Smoking
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!
Jesse Helms, US Senator from North Carolina,
at a dinner to promote the state's tobacco industry, 1996
Source:BQ
Tax Dollars
"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. ''
Part of the text of a fundraising mailer sent out by the
Helms campaign.
University of North Carolina (UNC)
"University of Negroes and Communists".
Voodoo
Nevertheless, if the Administration insists on funding these
programs I shall not stand in the way, so long as you agree
to the following conditions: 1) that no funds be obligated to
any affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood
Foundation (IPPF) in Haiti, including PROFAMIL; and 2) that no
funds be provided directly or indirectly to any group whose
programs include producing material intended to be used in
a voodoo ceremony ... A.I.D. is funding programs that
endorse or legitimize what amounts to witchcraft."
Jesse Helms, quoted in Mat Honan, "Jesse Helms'
Political Voodoo," Mojo, March 23, 1999
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Aids
"There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that
cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."
(States News Service, 5/17/88)
"I've never heard once in this chamber anybody say to the
homosexuals, 'stop what you're doing.' If they would stop what
they're doing there would not be one additional case of AIDS
in the United State."
Jesse Helms
Anti-Gay
This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not
allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to
enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat
homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jesse Helms, introducing an anti-gay bill in January, 1999,
quoted from Rhonda Smith, "Jesse Helms Introduces Anti-Gay Bill,
" The Washington Blade, February 26, 1999
Arts
"What is really at stake is whether or not America will allow
the cultural high ground in this nation to sink slowly into an
abyss of slime to placate people who clearly seek or are willing
to destroy the Judaic-Christian foundations of this republic."
Jesse Helms (1990, on funding for the National Endowment for the Arts)
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton "better watch out if he comes down here
[to North Carolina]. He'd better have a bodyguard."
-stated by Jesse Helms in regards to Clinton's
supposive unpopularity with the North Carolina military.
According to Helms (and refuted by military personnel),
the military was likely to shoot Clinton if he came to
North Carolina.
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