Political Quotes

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)
2013: 108 quotes2014: 137 quotes2015: 298 quotes2016: 165 quotes2017: 311 quotes2018: 271 quotes2019: 282 quotes2020: 98 quotes
Sep 25, 2018

Astoundingly, about 1 million people are being detained in rapidly expanding networks of concentration camps.

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Sep 25, 2018

We've got the Cambodia Democracy Act that the cronies around Hun Sen said would never go anywhere.

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Sep 25, 2018

What we plan to do on this committee... the information we deem from you will go into resolutions, letters to the different companies.

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Sep 25, 2018

We know the party elites that don't toe the party line are put into reeducation camps and we know they have over 1 million of those.

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Sep 25, 2018

We've seen this too many times in history and we see what China is trying to do to create a one China, one mind set, one culture.

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Sep 25, 2018

On these so-called reeducation camps--and the only place I know of them in modern time were in Nazi Germany, in North Korea, and now we see them in China.

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Sep 25, 2018

I find it very disturbing because, again, we've seen this throughout history.

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Sep 25, 2018

The word 'dystopia' is frequently used to describe the Chinese Communist Party's repression in the northwest of China.

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Sep 25, 2018

China leads by lie, deceit, and coercion.

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Sep 25, 2018

America should be given credit for protecting Muslims as we did in Bosnia and Kosovo.

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Sep 25, 2018

We ought to especially call out the Muslim countries that are saying nothing.

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Sep 25, 2018

My hope is that today, with the assistance of our expert panel, we can begin to address this disparity and work toward options for the overdue U.S. policy response to this crisis.

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Sep 25, 2018

We must speak out with the loudest possible voice.

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Sep 25, 2018

The CCP's--the Chinese Communist Party's--actions are transparently seeking to destroy normal Islamic religious practices, the Uyghur culture and language, and even the genetic concentration of Uyghur heritage in the Xinjiang.

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Sep 25, 2018

We have the responsibility as representatives of Americans killed by these groups to not stand idly by.

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Sep 25, 2018

If Iraq is ever going to become a strong and independent nation, we must take a stand against Iranian proxies in that nation.

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Sep 25, 2018

We are allowing fear to get the better of common-sense foreign policy.

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Sep 12, 2018

I hope you look at that because that's something we think will be passed out of the Senate with this Congress and use that as another tool in your arsenal because we'll do the follow-up and ask why are these entities not being sanctioned.

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Sep 12, 2018

We don't want to do that. We want this to come to an end.

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Sep 12, 2018

If we are going to bring the North Korea conflict to an end peacefully, we need all people at the table.

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Sep 12, 2018

Are we going after the bigger ones? Because secondary sanctions are some of the most powerful tools that we can have.

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Sep 12, 2018

Without question, we are playing a winning hand with strong sanctions and we can't back off, and we are in a different situation now that I want to address.

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Sep 12, 2018

What we have done is--this committee and I think this committee has been great at passing bipartisan legislation to give you guys tools, and we are separate branches of government but yet we can work coherently together to accomplish that…

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Sep 12, 2018

We are not faltering on the economic pressure campaign. We are not stepping away from this one iota.

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