Ted Yoho Quotes

American - Politician Born: April 13, 1955

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies. Ted Yoho

Black, Opportunity, Together, Ideas

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any. Ted Yoho

I Am, World, You, Perfect, Free, Find

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. Ted Yoho

Business, Time, Bird, Struggle, Day, Die

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. Ted Yoho

I Am, Free, More, Us, Fair, Trade

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

World, America, Our, Foreign Aid, How

The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency. Ted Yoho

Complacency, China, Hold, Weapons, North

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. Ted Yoho

Life, Dog, Happy, Pet, Animal, Die

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. Ted Yoho

Money, Government, Promise, More, Than

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. Ted Yoho

Me, Step, Think, You, Feel, Process

I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track. Ted Yoho

Hope, Champion, Nation, Back, I Can, Our

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. Ted Yoho

People, Thinking, Drawing, Think, You

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. Ted Yoho

Future, Path, People, Care, Down, Know

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

Trying, Always, President, Done, Like

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. Ted Yoho

Freedom, Look, World, You, Speech, Start

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

Out, Our, System, Explosion, Would, Grid

I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't. Ted Yoho

Today, Tomorrow, I Can, Will, Others

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.' Ted Yoho

People, Country, Enough, Lost, Way, Over

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. Ted Yoho

Change, People, Person, Way, Politicians

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. Ted Yoho

Name, See, Why, Cliff, Committee, Coming

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me. Ted Yoho

Good, Me, Enough, Washington, George

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

Good, Myself, Wife, Feel, Better, Aim

As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good. Ted Yoho

Good, Time, Horse, Practice, Feel, Stop

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

Money, Country, American, Ground, Middle

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.' Ted Yoho

Leadership, Me, You, Problems, Need, Why

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Ted Yoho

Democracy, Republic, Constitutional

Democracy is like a totalitarian. Ted Yoho

Democracy, Like, Totalitarian

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