Scott Pruitt

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Threats I have faced are unprecedented.”

“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?”

“The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.”

“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.”

“The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized.”

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

“I know what it means to prosecute people.”