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" 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. "

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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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" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "

" 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. "

" My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution. "

" 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. "

" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live. "

" 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. "

" We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment. "

Scott Pruitt

Pro-Growth

" I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them. "

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

" I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution. "

" 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. "

" We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. "

" 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. "

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

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

" It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources. "

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

" I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying a lot. "

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

" 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 and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act. "

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

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