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
And if youre not going to have a clear health threat, you dont want to panic people. – 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
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
It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise
There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. – Charles Dickens