Ted Yoho

I feel some of my colleagues aren't accepting the fact that we are $20 trillion in debt and that austerity measures are coming.

I read an article about Hezbollah about a month ago and how it said that it has become a force of over 100,000 very well armed, very well trained, one of the top fighting forces in the world.

They are certainly very angry about that.

America has, in the past, been a great leader to them, and they look to us for forward-thinking policy.

Why should we be a U.S. territory buying oil from Venezuela that is bolstering up a regime that is not friendly to this country?

I also have the honor and the privilege of being the chairman of the Asia Pacific Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs, and we hear probably weekly from Ambassadors from different countries around that region how they want to start importing…

Exporting LNG out of North America makes sense to bring clean energy to those areas, in addition to national security.

I think it was the right thing to do. I think that tied our hands as Americans.

We simply cannot be able to maintain our position with partnership with the continent without the robust involvement of the American private sector.

My goal is to transition all of our countries that we are giving foreign aid to, to go from a model of aid to trade.

When it comes down to our seniors or foreign aid, you know where it is going to go.

We are in a financial crisis in this country that is going to get worse if we don't deal with the underlying problem.

If you cut foreign aid save that money and buy ammunition with it, and I truly believe that.

I believe that the instrumentalities and instruments provided by OPIC, EXIM, and TDA are important to continue and deepen our trade and investment relationships with Africa.

I think they are playing it smart.

I think the biggest difference and, yes, there are some other disputes there.

I think we are way off course, and we really need to focus.

They are weaponizing those islands.

If we can repeat that model over and over again, I feel us building stronger, a stronger alliance and unity in that area to stave off China.

Our goal is to have balanced trade as important as it is free trade agreements.

I think the free trade agreement--because we want them to know that we are back, that we are here, that we are going to be strong allies.

I am happy to say we have done letters of strong free trade agreements already with Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam.

If you cut that foreign aid, we are going to have to spend that in ammunition, and I know we don't want that.

If you are not sitting with them and talking about these problems, you are not going to address them.

I think what we see with that, we can't be first if we don't help our neighbors and our partners.