Scott Pruitt Quotes

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.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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

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

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn’t have to come at the expense of our economy’s bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

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

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

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

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

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.

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

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

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.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.