Helms, Jesse Filmography

• Play in Full Screen How to Survive a Plague

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Vito

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Channel 4 at 25

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Challenger: Countdown to Disaster

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chavez: Inside the Coup

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dear Jesse

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Damned in the U.S.A.

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speaking in U.S. Senate

Famous quotes by Jesse Helms:

"I'm not calling [William] Weld a skunk. But if you get into a certain kind of contest, you get your shoes wet. I'm not going to pick up his challenge. What he would like most in the world is for me to fire back so he could fire back."

"[Saying he didn't] particularly relish raining on their parade, ... perhaps uncomfortable votes -- on a range of issues relating to China."

"I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists,"

"The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, ... By conducting five nuclear tests India made a major miscalculation not merely about the United States but about India's own capability. The Indian government has deluded itself into the absurd assumption that the possession of nuclear weapons will make India into a superpower at a time when hundreds of millions of India's people are in abject poverty."

"We don't need to worry about the Indian nuclear tests if India has agreed not to have these weapons in the first place,"

"We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,"

"to sacrifice Taiwan's security in order to appease the dictators in Beijing."

"John Roberts and I worked on a response to that letter"

"It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease"

"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"

"I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed."

"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."

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

"There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed."

"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."

"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."

"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."

"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."

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

"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."