Jesse Helms

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

“The problem is not the availability of guns, it is the availability of criminals.”

“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

“There is only one person who has the right to decide what is right and what is wrong, and that is God.”

“We must stop the trend of permissiveness that is eating away at the soul of our nation.”

“All of us are equal in the eyes of God, and that means we're all equal in the eyes of the law.”

“To be an American is to be a part of a great enterprise.”

“Nothing positive happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and nothing positive is going to happen to America if we continue to push God out of our lives.”

“If you want to call me a bigot, fine.”

“Crime, you know, is a word, it's a word of convenience. You can't see crime, you can't touch it, you can't smell it, you can't feel it, you can't taste it.”

“Mr. Caperton, I will not have my name used in any way to raise money for the National Endowment for the Arts.”

“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.”