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" The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? "
Scott Pruitt
Surface
Debate
Ideal
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" 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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" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "
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" 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. "
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" Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. "
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" What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. "
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" 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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" There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country. "
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" 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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" I've led a grand jury. "
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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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" Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do. "
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" There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues. "
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American
Decisions
" 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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" I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding. "
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Remember
" 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? "
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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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" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "
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" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "
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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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" 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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" Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live. "
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" We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Battles
Been