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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those. "

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

Entrepreneurship

" 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. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

Checks And Balances

" 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? "

" Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Agencies exist to administer the law. "

" Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts. "

" Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. "

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

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

" 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. "