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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? "
Scott Pruitt
Right
Me
I Can
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" Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate. "
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" 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. "
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" It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying. "
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Standards
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" Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest. "
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Government
Health
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" My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution. "
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" Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline. "
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" It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. "
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People
Everyday
Washington
" I happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as a treaty, should have gone through Senate confirmation. "
Scott Pruitt
Think
Agreement
Will
" The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot. "
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" Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential. "
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Our
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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. "
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Great
Government
Balance
" 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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Just
Newspaper
Facts
" Agencies exist to administer the law. "
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Administer
Law
Exist
" When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal? "
Scott Pruitt
Empower
War
You
" This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking. "
Scott Pruitt
Way
Old
Environment
" Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live. "
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Live
Which
About
" 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. "
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Think
Impact
Disagreement
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Change
Got
Working
" The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind. "
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Responsibility
Respect
Blessed
" We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge. "
Scott Pruitt
Washington
Problems
Need
" 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. "
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See
Believe
Great
" We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment. "
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Jobs
Environment
Good
" The EPA has performed a very important role for us all. "
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Important Role
Role
" Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind. "
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History
Free
Ideas
" There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator. "
Scott Pruitt
Role
Ebb
Why
" I know what it means to prosecute people. "
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Know
Means
People
" Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress. "
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Congress
Destiny
Desire