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" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "

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

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

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

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

" Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "

" I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state. "

Scott Pruitt

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles. "

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

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

" We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out. "

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

" 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. "

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