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

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
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 African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates