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" 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. "

Scott Pruitt

Faith

Religion

" Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential. "

" Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites. "

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

" We know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018? "

" 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

" I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended. "

" The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying. "

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

" Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. "

" I know what it means to prosecute people. "

" 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. "

" In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices. "

" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "

" Truly and clearly, the climate changes. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power of the states, the people, and our Constitution that will get us out. "

" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "

" 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. "

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

" I've led a grand jury. "

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

" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "

" This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that well as a country. We haven't had to choose. "

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