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" Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live. "
Scott Pruitt
Live
Which
About
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" We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment. "
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Environment
Good
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Quality
Water
Air
" I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding. "
Scott Pruitt
Days
Up
Remember
" 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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Authority
Congress
Job
" This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking. "
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Way
Old
Environment
" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "
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Environmental
Need
Protection
" 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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More
Office
Find
" 'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making. "
Scott Pruitt
Rules
Environmental
Creation
" I've led a grand jury. "
Scott Pruitt
Jury
Led
Grand Jury
" If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers. "
Scott Pruitt
Rule Of Law
President
Law
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Mind
Authority
" Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over. "
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Over
Clear
Made
" 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 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Plan
You
Confidence
" Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Health
Safety
" 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
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Talk
Role
Need
" Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. "
Scott Pruitt
Right
Practice
Faith
" EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water. "
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Land
Results
Water
" Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states. "
Scott Pruitt
Government
Relationship
Role
" 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. "
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Step
Government
American
" We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. "
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Jobs
Should
Choose
" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "
Scott Pruitt
Liberty
Religious
Issues
" 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
" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "
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Checks And Balances
Framework
Matters
" 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. "
Scott Pruitt
Think
Impact
Disagreement
" Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time. "
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Honor
Him
Working
" We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together. "
Scott Pruitt
Economy
Together
Saying