Explore Quotes by Jesse Helms

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

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

Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.

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.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

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.

Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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