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" Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper. "

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" I'm going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites. "

" We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time. "

" My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong. "

" I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. "

" EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water. "

" Agencies exist to administer the law. "

" I've led a grand jury. "

" America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world. "

" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "

" No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump. "

" There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress. "

" I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way. "

" Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. "

" I know what it means to prosecute people. "

" Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment. "

" My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful. "

" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "

" When you hang around people who believe in you, it kind of uplifts your spirit a little bit. And you can see great things happen. "

" Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states. "

" As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship. "

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" We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that. "

" The EPA has performed a very important role for us all. "

" Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. "

" There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues. "

" This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking. "

" I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state. "

" The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? "

" As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks. "

" There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution. "

" We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out. "