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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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"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."

"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."

"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."

"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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