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

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" EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator. "

" I know what it means to prosecute people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Entrepreneurship

" The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? "

" 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. "

" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "

" No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump. "

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

" Agencies exist to administer the law. "

" If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers. "

" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "

" 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. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

Checks And Balances

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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