James Lankford actually said...

"No one--I repeat, no one cares more about the water resources of Oklahoma than Oklahomans and the people who live there."

"I also do not accept the assumption that local regulators cannot be trusted because they have political pressures that would discourage enforcement but Federal regulators have only pure motives and no..."

"The assumption that Federal regulators from other States understand the geologic strata and energy process better than State enforcement is beyond credible."

"I am very skeptical that thousands of wells and many different types of rock and soil conditions across the country can be overseen from Washington better than by State leaders who know the people and..."