Scott Pruitt Quotes

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Most people don't know that the biggest regret that I have - and it's a biggie - is not fighting harder for policy and very practical measures to support the development of the green jobs industry.

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

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

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.

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

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

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

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

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.