Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

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• This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

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• 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.

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• The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

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

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• 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.

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• That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

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• 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.

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

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

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• It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

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• It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

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• 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.

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• I worked in the media from the late 30’s through the early 70’s. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

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• 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!

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• I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

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

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• 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.

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Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (23)

Birth:	18th October, 1921
Death:	4th July, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. was born in Monroe, North Carolina, USA. He was an American politician, journalist and a leader in the conservative movement. He was elected five times as a Republican to the United States Senate from North Carolina (1973-2003). He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001 he had a major voice in foreign policy. He studied at Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College. He begin a career as a journalist, working for the next eleven years as a newspaper and radio reporter, first as a sportswriter and news reporter for Raleigh's The News & Observer, and also as assistant city editor for The Raleigh Times. He wrote several books include: When free men shall stand, The Ramparts We Watched, Empire for liberty, and Here's where I stand (memoir). He married Dorothy "Dot" Coble in 1942.

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