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“I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.”
“My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.”
“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.”
“If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.”
“The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.”
“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.”
“Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states.”
“Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.”
“I've led a grand jury.”
“What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.”
“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.”
“Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.”
“Truly and clearly, the climate changes.”
“The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.”
“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.”
“There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.”