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Ted Yoho

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Ted Yoho is a former U.S. Representative from Florida, serving in the House from January 3, 2013, to January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Yoho represented Florida's 3rd congressional district. During his time in office, he was known for his focus on issues such as healthcare, agriculture, and fiscal responsibility. Yoho was also a member of the House Freedom Caucus, which advocates for limited government and conservative principles.

Quotes by year · 2013–20201,670 total · peak 2017 (311)
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Jun 11, 2019

If you kill one radical terrorist, 20 get born out of that.

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Jun 11, 2019

We have certainly learned that when an administration moves past or bypasses Congress, like the Obama Administration did with the JCPOA and passed over a billion dollars to Iran, the consequences of that take a long time to go back and…

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Jun 11, 2019

I think the best thing that the Administration can do is work to get all of us onboard of why because I question some of it, too, and I want to support the Administration.

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Jun 11, 2019

As we move forward in the science of all this, do you believe that the use of biotechnology in agriculture, it is a pretty rhetorical question, will increase or decrease over the next 10 years? It will increase, right?

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Jun 11, 2019

The regulatory environment, how much does that impede incentivation for development and research but then to move a product from finding a cure to market?

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Jun 11, 2019

It is imperative that we get a cure for this, and one of the things will probably be a GMO or CRISPR gene technology.

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Jun 10, 2019

Those that committed the horrendous charges of violence, did they act independent of Ortega's government?

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Jun 10, 2019

We in the free world need to wake up, because what we have is--we have got Nicaragua.

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Jun 10, 2019

Why in the heck do the civilized free world tolerate people like Daniel Ortega?

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Jun 10, 2019

I think we can conclude the crimes could not have been orchestrated or carried out without the direct involvement of Daniel Ortega's knowledge and/or approval.

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Jun 4, 2019

It has created a problem in Congress. What we have to do, if my colleagues on the other side are serious about finding a fix for this problem, for our broken immigration system: Let's work together and agree that, without border security…

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May 15, 2019

If we do not get our fiscal house in order this is going to continue and China is going to eat our lunch about it.

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May 14, 2019

You are leading into where I was going. In 1990, President Clinton recommended China's entry into the WTO on a developing nation status. Yet today, they are the second largest economy in the world--second to the U.S.--and they are still a…

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May 14, 2019

All right. You are singing a great song that I have shared with the AmChams, I have shared with other countries, and it is our philosophy of ABC. When you go to manufacture, it is anywhere but China.

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May 14, 2019

I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania, who is a brigadier general, and he has been on the front lines, for those remarks. General Leave

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May 14, 2019

I thank my colleague from Arizona, who pointed out some great things. We are going to talk about the South China Sea, or the East Sea, and what China has done. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).

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May 14, 2019

I thank my colleague from Missouri for her comments. Those are very well pointed-out facts that the American people, if they knew this was going on, would stop buying ``made in China.'' Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona…

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May 14, 2019

I would like to thank my colleagues for being here, and I want to start tonight out. We are going to spend an hour highlighting what many of us on Capitol Hill view as one of the largest threats in the 21st century, and that is a China…

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May 8, 2019

I think we need to change our game plan here in the United States.

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May 8, 2019

We have a free society and so we value freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of expression. They despise that.

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May 8, 2019

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your testimonies. I mean, you guys are spot on pretty much on everything.

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May 8, 2019

Their characteristics are social monitoring, citizen scores, you know, the eroding of democracies and going to totalitarian and becoming a vassal State of China.

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May 8, 2019

I think long term we are going to do fine. You know, an oak tree when you plant an acorn it grows straight up.

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May 8, 2019

When you say we are not there, I look at all the foreign aid we have given to countries in Latin America, it is over $5 billion in the last 10 years, and a lot of that goes to good governance, lack of or getting rid of corruption, and law…

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