RIP Jesse Helms

RIP Jesse Helms.

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

"We've got to have some common sense about a disease [Aids] transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

After debating then-Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-ILL) about the virtues of the Confederate Flag: "I'm going to sing 'Dixie' to her until she cries."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

On Ted Kennedy: "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."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

From the Robert Mapplethorpe/NEA controversy: "Come up here and see what your tax dollars are paying for. But no ladies, please! Only men can come up and see this. This will turn your stomach."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

"I've never heard once in this chamber [The U.S. Senate] 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 States."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

On Clinton-era HUD appointee Roberta Actenberg: "She's not your garden-variety lesbian. She's a militant-activist-mean lesbian."

Jesse Helms

Quote of the day - Jesse Helms

The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves.

Jesse Helms