Jesse Helms

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.

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

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

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.

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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