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" Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time. "

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

" 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? "

" As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship. "

Entrepreneurship

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

" I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

Checks And Balances

" 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. "

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

" The EPA has performed a very important role for us all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do. "

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

" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I know what it means to prosecute people. "

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