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" 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? "

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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. "

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

" There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

" I've led a grand jury. "

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

" Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states. "

" 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. "

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

" My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution. "

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

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

" 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. "