Words matter. These are the best Scott Pruitt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.
If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.
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.
This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.
It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.
The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.
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.
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 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.
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 might not like a statute… but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It’s stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE.
Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states.
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.
Truly and clearly, the climate changes.
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?
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?
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
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 need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
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 an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny.
There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.
No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.
There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.
I’ve led a grand jury.
There is no reason why EPA’s role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.
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.
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.
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
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.
The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.
We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those.
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.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
Threats I have faced are unprecedented.
The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don’t meet the protections.
I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.
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.
We’re saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.
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.
It’s unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It’s unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
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 think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
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?
The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.
When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.
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.
Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live.
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.
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.
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.
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don’t need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn’t act.
What I’ve said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn’t regulate through litigation.
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.
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.
America’s infrastructure was once the envy of the world.
‘Sue and settle’ involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.
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.
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 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.
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