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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
Jesse Helms
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I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
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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.
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It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
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We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
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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.
Jesse Helms
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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.
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What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
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