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
Jan 11, 2016

I can relate to G.T. Thompson because we have been on a WIC Program, my wife and I, about 100 years ago in our youth.

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Jan 11, 2016

We have rural and we have also a lot of military veterans, as I have talked about, both retired and active.

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Dec 15, 2015

A democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. And the sheep always loses.

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Dec 15, 2015

We keep trying to say: We are going to help you with democracy. And if you don't understand how democracies work and the fight from the ground up, you know, through the people, I would like to hear your input on what the people are looking…

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Dec 15, 2015

What do the people of Egypt want? What does el-Sisi want? I mean, democracy as we know it doesn't generally work in one of those countries if they don't have the human rights, the protection of free speech, the religious freedom, the…

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Dec 15, 2015

But the main tumor is over here. And we need to go after the main root cause of our problems before I can support any sales of those.

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Dec 15, 2015

Efforts by Congress to place conditional requirements upon aid to Pakistan due to the country's support for terror have consistently been waived by administrations.

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Dec 15, 2015

I mean, how serious are they? Because I am not seeing it.

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Dec 15, 2015

If you are serious, you go in and annihilate that.

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Dec 15, 2015

With $30 billion of the American taxpayers' money going into that area, and we rewarded Pakistan by giving them, selling the initial F-16s as them helping us after 9/11.

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Dec 8, 2015

If we are serious about bringing this civil war to an end, I urge unanimous support for this large bipartisan-supported resolution.

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Dec 8, 2015

This resolution is extremely important as it condemns the Assad regime for the atrocities against the Syrian people.

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Dec 8, 2015

I want to thank Representative Yoho for his leadership on this critical issue, and urge all members to support this resolution.

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Dec 8, 2015

I will write this down. I am out of time, and I want to respect the Chairman's time and everybody else's.

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Dec 8, 2015

There is a lot of mistrust of government.

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Dec 8, 2015

I think we have overstepped the boundaries of this.

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Dec 1, 2015

The EPA's own report says that their new emissions standards will not reduce the CO<INF>2</INF> emissions or improve air quality or human health, but they are going ahead with it anyway to the detriment of American manufacturing jobs and…

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Dec 1, 2015

Long range, it has got to be a political answer. There has to be a military answer, maybe a financial answer.

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Dec 1, 2015

It seems to me that our dealing with ISIS is reactionary. They do something, we react.

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Nov 16, 2015

I appreciate it. I am out of time, and thank you for being here. And keep up the good work.

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Nov 16, 2015

Let me ask you this: How much are you using the Internet for education, you know, like a classroom to bring the world experts to teach if--any of you have experience with that?

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Nov 16, 2015

A great movie. Anyway, what I have seen is, you know, when we look around, and when we have 60 percent or greater of the world's population as was mentioned, off the Internet, 4.3 billion offline, and primarily women, what experiences do…

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Nov 16, 2015

I appreciate the panelists being here. And, you know, there is a paradigm shift going on.

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Nov 4, 2015

We continue to give money to certain programs and we really don't know whether it is working to solve the problem of hunger or water...

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Nov 4, 2015

One would think that we have over the years evaluated foreign assistance, but we haven't really evaluated it to see whether it is working or not.

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