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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Agencies exist to administer the law. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I know what it means to prosecute people. "

" 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. "

" As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies. "

" The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "