Scott Pruitt

Politician

1968-05-09

Quotes by Scott Pruitt

• The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

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• We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.

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

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• 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.

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• As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.

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

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• 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.

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• What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

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• It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

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• 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?

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.

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• My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.

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