Scott Pruitt Quotes

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment.

Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

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.

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

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

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

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.

There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.

We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

With the economy and the environment situated as two pillars of the country's growth, my administration will make the utmost effort to achieve a green society.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.