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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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" Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process. "

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

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

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

" 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 believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying a lot. "

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

" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "

" 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. "

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

" What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation. "

" When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the greatest asset that they have, it is their land. They care about the water that they drink. They care about the air that they breathe. We should see them as partners, not adversaries. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress. "

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

" 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. "