Quotes from Scott Pruitt

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.

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.

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

'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.

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

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.

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?

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.

We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.

Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.

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

Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

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.

No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.