Ted Yoho

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?”

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

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

“One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.”

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

“Let's treat this country first and foremost.”

“I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.”

“I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.”

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

“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.”

“If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.”