| This page is to inform you about the man named Jesse Helms. I like to call this the Jesse Helms collection. All the things you are about to read he actually said. But keep in mind that these saying are not the views of the Webmaster. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| "Fine call me a Bigot if you want." Webmaster note: And we will |
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| "Let me adjust my hearing aid. It could not accommodate the decibels of the Senator from Massachusette. I can't match him in decibels or Jezebels." After Ted Kennedy made an impassioned speech to let foreigners with AIDS become U.S. citizens, Feb. 17, 1993. When asked whether he thought President Clinton was "up to the job" of serving as Commander in Chief: "No, I do not. And Neither do the people in the armed forces." Interview on CNN program Evans and Novak, Nov. 18, 1994: "Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard. "The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian." 1995 "The University of Negroes and Communists."-Reference to the University of North Carolina devised by Mr. Helms when he worked for Willis Smith's 1950 U.S. Senate campaign. "Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that Cannibalism, wife-swapping, and murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior." -Fund raising mailer, 1996 "All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction."-After Mexicans protested his visit in 1986. "It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conducy that is responsible for the disease" -Justifying his refusal to give financial support to families of AIDS victims. "Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches"-1995 radio broadcast "She's a damn lesbian. I am not going to put a lesbian in a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine."-Explaining why he was opposing the appointment of a women for a cabinet post. "They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro."-In response to Duke University students holding a vigil after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 1968. "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that has thus far left him free to clog the streets, distrupt traffic and commerce and interface with other men's rights."- television interview, 1963 "There have been 248 different U.S. senators in the 18 years and months I have been there. None, none, have been more capable than Dan Quayle."-The News & Observer, 1991. |
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