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

-- Justifying his refusal to give financial support to families of AIDS victims.

 

"Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches."

-- 1995 radio broadcast

 

"She's a damn lesbian. I am not going to put a lesbian in a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine."

-- Explaining why he was opposing the appointment of a woman for a cabinet post.

 

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

-- 1995

 

"The University of Negroes and Communists"

-- Reference to the University of North Carolina devised by Mr. Helms when he worked for Willis Smith's 1950 U.S. Senate campaign.

 

"They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro."

-- In response to Duke University students holding a vigil after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 1968