Scott Pruitt

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.

Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

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

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

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

Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do.

Agencies exist to administer the law.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

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.

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.

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.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

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

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

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.