"There were schools and hospitals who were ready……" — William Scranton
"There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning."
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25 Quotes by William Scranton
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By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
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Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what…
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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in…
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Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down…
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
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But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
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And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had…
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And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely…
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None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
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It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so…
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And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
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When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you…
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More Hospitals Quotes
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I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create…
— Joseph Barbera
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are…
— Dan Benishek
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with…
— Donald Berwick
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their…
— Bono
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
— Jo Brand
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Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our…
— Lois Capps
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When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices...…
— Hillary Clinton
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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we…
— Florence Nightingale
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but…
— Swami Vivekananda
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