Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Pruitt
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.
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.
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.
Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.
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.
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.
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?
It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power of the states, the people, and our Constitution that will get us out.
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.
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.
Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do.
The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.
The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.
We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.
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.
Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.
There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.
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.
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.
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.
It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines.
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.
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.
America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
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.
Agencies exist to administer the law.
We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those.
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.
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them.
My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.
What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.
I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.
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.
Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.
I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
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 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.
EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process.
Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time.
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.
It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.
As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.
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.
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