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" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
History
Free
Ideas
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" Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act. "
Scott Pruitt
Need
Branch
Act
" EPA will set a national standard for greenhouse gas emissions that allows auto manufacturers to make cars that people both want and can afford - while still expanding environmental and safety benefits of newer cars. "
Scott Pruitt
Gas
Environmental
People
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
World
Environmental
Oil
" I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended. "
Scott Pruitt
I Am
Laws
Exist
" What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation. "
Scott Pruitt
Consent
Said
Through
" I think the most grievous threat that we have today is this imperialistic judiciary, this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on what the First Amendment's about and has an objective to create religious sterility in the public square, which is wholly inconsistent with the Founding Fathers' view. "
Scott Pruitt
Judiciary
View
Today
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Think
More
" My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Battles
Been
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Against
Most
Come
" We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. "
Scott Pruitt
Jobs
Should
Choose
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Someone
History
Respect
" We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines. "
Scott Pruitt
Only
You
Need
" It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. "
Scott Pruitt
People
Everyday
Washington
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Election
Government
Power
" As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies. "
Scott Pruitt
Energy
Best
Plan
" We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together. "
Scott Pruitt
Economy
Together
Saying
" I know what it means to prosecute people. "
Scott Pruitt
Know
Means
People
" Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Relationship
Role
" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "
Scott Pruitt
Washington
Hubris
Last
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Constitution
Power
Great
" Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. "
Scott Pruitt
Right
Practice
Faith
" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "
Scott Pruitt
Liberty
Religious
Issues
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Voice
Texas
Small
" Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. "
Scott Pruitt
Religion
Speech
Free
" I've led a grand jury. "
Scott Pruitt
Jury
Led
Grand Jury
" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "
Scott Pruitt
Meet
Behind
Facts
" Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate. "
Scott Pruitt
Ozone
Most
Important
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Great
Government
Balance