Scott Pruitt Quotes

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

States should have enormous input into the decisions that affect them.

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Texans can run Texas without the federal government telling them what to do.

Many states have legalized medicinal marijuana. I believe the president and the Department of Justice ought to respect the will of these separate states... We are capable of self-government. We don't need some federal gendarme to come and tell us what to do. I believe comity toward the states...ought to govern the policy.

I don't think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state... so that you can tailor your governing to the people's needs.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

It is a fundamental principle of American law that the regulation of the local police of all the domestic affairs of a State belong to the State itself, and not to the Federal Government.

The federal government should stay out of it.

I am going to make Washington as irrelevant to your lives as possible

The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

There is a tension between the flexibility we give states and the accountability we require from states.

The proposed system [of American government] is like the solar system, in which the states are the planets, and they ought to be left to move more freely in their proper orbits.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.