Scott Pruitt Quotes

I believe in the Constitution.

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

The people in Congress have no interest in preserving the Constitution because they are interested in power.

What we had to do was to make it more dangerous for the federal government not to enforce federal law.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

Judges will have the expounding of those laws when they come before them; and they will no doubt stop the operation of such as shall appear repugnant to the constitution.

David Addington does not believe in the Constitution

The Federal government we have today is unimaginable in the perspective of the Americans who debated the ratification of the original constitution.

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution.

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

I revere the Constitution.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.