Quotes from Ted Yoho

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 don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.

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.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

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

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

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.

I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

President Trump can't vote for me. The people that sent me up here sent me up here to repeal and replace, 100 percent, the Affordable Care Act.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

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.

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.

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

Let's treat this country first and foremost.

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.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.