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

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" 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. "

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

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

" Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment. "

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

" Truly and clearly, the climate changes. "

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

" We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment. "

" 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. "

" I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding. "

" What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. "

" We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that. "

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

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

" America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I've led a grand jury. "

" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. "

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