Ted Yoho Quotes

What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.

An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.

I’m pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.

America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

If that was good enough for George Washington, it’s good enough for me.

The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing’s empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang’s provocative behavior, to no avail.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you’ve got to start castrating them, that’s pretty intimidating.

If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet – Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

I’m not willing to commit American taxpayers’ money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

Anybody that’s been in an election, you’re always looking to get the upper hand.

If you step out and do what you feel is right… and you’re not attacking a person, and you’re attacking a process, and you’re attacking the status quo… and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that’s on them. It’s not on me, and I’m going to do what I think is right.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: ‘We’ve had enough,’ ‘Our country is drifting,’ ‘We’ve lost our way.’

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

I see the value of being a force. I don’t want to say a force, but numbers. If you’re all spread out, you can’t change policy for the better, and I feel we’ve done that.

I liked animals better than people. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet – then I found out that every pet had a person that owned ’em.

I will do today what others won’t so I can do tomorrow what others can’t.

Our rights come from God, not the government.

It’s a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we’ve appropriated.

Whatever we do from government, we need to do what’s best for America. If we do that, that’s bringing power back to the people.

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name – why didn’t he do this sooner? Why didn’t he see it coming? It’s the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we’ve got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can’t service your debt.

If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it’s freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you’re going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

With all the problems we are having, I won’t be afraid to tell leadership, ‘You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.’

I can’t predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we’re on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It’s more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.

Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he’s done.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it’ll die because they don’t go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you’ll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you’ll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

When you speak the truth, people realize that.

President Trump is right to welcome China’s help in bringing North Korea’s illicit nuclear program to heal, but he’s also correct that if China doesn’t go along, the U.S. can act alone.

I don’t want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.

I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

I’ve removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.