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

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" If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right? "

" We know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018? "

" For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that throughout history. We impact the climate by our activity. How much so is very difficult to determine with respect to our CO2 or carbon footprint, but we obviously do. "

" Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states. "

" This idea that if you're pro-environment you're anti-energy is just something we've got to change, so that attitude is something we're working on very much. "

" 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. "

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

" The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind. "

" Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate. "

" 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. "

" The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized. "

" The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition. "

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

" We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines. "

" We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment. "

" When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars. "

" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

Checks And Balances

" What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. "

" Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest. "

" Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over. "

" When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the greatest asset that they have, it is their land. They care about the water that they drink. They care about the air that they breathe. We should see them as partners, not adversaries. "

" There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint. "

" Agencies exist to administer the law. "

" 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. "

" Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE. "

" Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts. "

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

" We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together. "

" When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny. "