Paparazzos Scranton Quotes

They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. ~ William Scranton

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. ~ William Scranton

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. ~ William Scranton

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.' ~ Joe Biden

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. ~ William Scranton

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera. ~ Constantin Stanislavski

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe. ~ Bob Casey, Jr.

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. ~ William Scranton

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen. ~ J.G. Ballard

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. ~ Sarah Palin

None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen. ~ William Scranton

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was. ~ William Scranton

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground. ~ William Scranton

It is St. Patrick's Day. And here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas. ~ Michael Scott

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. ~ William Scranton

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. ~ William Scranton

When you don't forget you were once a scrappy kid from Scranton and you hustle until your family is set when you're gone.
HUSTLE, like no one is awake.
Day or night. Sunrise - sunset.
Hustle quietly,
when the lights are on and when
the lights are off. ~ Jill Telford

So Ryan got promoted to corporate, where he is a big fish in a little pond. Where as back here in Scranton I'm still top dog, in a fairly large pond. So who is the real boss, the dog or the fish? ~ Steve Carell

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have. ~ William Scranton

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. ~ William Scranton

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it. ~ William Scranton

Scranton describing Sen. Robert A. Taft's conservatism as compared to Goldwater's said Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word. He sought to conserve all the human values that have been carried down to us on a long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built, not a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed. ~ Rick Perlstein

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that. ~ William Scranton

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions. ~ William Scranton