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
Jul 22, 2015

I don't see this as a good deal, and I think we should walk away from the table.

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Jul 22, 2015

We are hoping to create the demand, because we are going to introduce a Caribbean crude export ban lift just for the Caribbean Basin and Mexico for the exports of petroleum products and increase that demand so it will increase more people…

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Jul 22, 2015

If we could come together and had that consortium, that would help Mexico, I would think, project.

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Jul 22, 2015

We need to engage the financial system to deprive both the bad guys, but also corrupt politicians.

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Jul 21, 2015

I would like to work with you on that.

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Jul 21, 2015

Is there anything that is being held up in that program or that needs to be expedited?

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Jul 14, 2015

The underlying cause it says here the root cause is the single parent household.

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Jul 14, 2015

The root cause of hunger, reading your reports here, and where it says the fact that 40 percent of the children in the United States are now born to parents that are not married, and it is a key explanation for the continued existence of…

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Jul 14, 2015

When that mother comes in, the single mother comes into a health clinic and talk about the responsibility of raising that child.

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Jul 14, 2015

I know this is at the risk of being very controversial, but if we don't treat the underlying problem...

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Jul 14, 2015

Do we treat our animals better than we do our children?

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Jul 14, 2015

We are treating a symptom and not treating the underlying problem.

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Jul 14, 2015

The underlying problem, to me, is responsibility in a lot of this case.

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Jul 14, 2015

Somewhere the cycle has to be brought--and I am all for helping people get into a system, get them educated, get them to move beyond that so that we break that cycle.

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Jul 14, 2015

We are not going to work ourselves out of this until we change something.

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Jul 14, 2015

I appreciate you all being here to discuss this so we can reform the nutrition program so we get the best benefit for the end-user, and that the American taxpayers' dollars go to wise use.

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Jul 14, 2015

No offense, but those are kind of common sense things, that if we put more money into the system, in people's hands, it is going to increase their buying and purchasing power.

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Jul 14, 2015

As George Washington said, you have to have food security to have national security.

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Jul 13, 2015

They have been playing the cat and mouse game for over 30 years and what I see is an administration that is incompetent on this agreement.

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Jul 13, 2015

This is a bad deal. We need to walk away from the table.

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Jul 13, 2015

If you want to see one's future, look at what they presently are doing.

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Jul 13, 2015

A pessimist who doesn't think peace will occur in the Middle East is an optimist that has studied Middle East history.

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Jul 13, 2015

I think we have crossed the point of what we tried to negotiate.

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Jul 13, 2015

Let's hope they do that and that democracy shows and shines over there of what freedom does.

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Jul 8, 2015

This is a disaster. This administration has not served America well, the Middle East, or world peace.

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