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.

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.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.