Political Quotes

“Mr. President, some really big things are happening right now that are happening under the radar; people are not aware of them. One of them is the fact that the Obama war on fossil fuels is officially over now and good things are happening. This coincides with a time when we have a shale revolution. We have a situation where we are actually reviving an industry that had been pushed for the last 8 years. Oil and gas accounts for over 5 percent of the jobs in the entire country and accounts for over $1 trillion in economic impact in the U.S. gross domestic product. In my State of Oklahoma, the industry directly employs nearly 150,000 people, and each of those jobs support more than two additional jobs in the State. Thanks to the election of President Trump, help has arrived. There are some very vocal sectors in America that want to put the fossil fuel industry out of business. We know that. They are out there. They are alive and well, and the attacks will keep coming. While most inroads were made toward that goal during the Obama administration, the environmental extremists will continue to use our court system and the media to ensure that the war on fossil fuels continues, putting American jobs and the economy at risk. Back in Oklahoma--it is kind of funny--I have an established policy for the last 20 years that every year, at the end of every week, I will either--if I don't have to be in Afghanistan or someplace else--I am always back in the State, never here.…”