Pennsylvania Quotes - Page 2

• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

  Peter Morville

  Book, Amazon, Acquisition

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• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  John Woolman

  Friends, Virginia, Discipline

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.15

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• The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

  Bill Shuster

  War, Army, College

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• How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

  William Schreyer

  Years, People, Abiding

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• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

  Spencer Bachus

  Numbers, Gambling, People

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• The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

  David Wilkerson

  Men, House, Challenges

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• I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

  Davy Jones

  Littles, Towns, Quiet

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• I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Childhood, Tree

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• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, Growing Up, Broadway

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Kings, Agents, Addresses

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• It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

  Arlen Specter

  People, Privilege

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.356, Macmillan

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• Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

  Steve Kroft

  Country, Bridges, Philadelphia

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

  John McCain

  May, Nasty, Agree

  "McCain Fights to Keep Crucial Blue State in Play" by • Elisabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Ilana Mercer

  Queens, Hands, Life And Death

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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• One of the things [Donald] Trump has done is tie into particularly what would be the sons and daughters of Reagan Democrats in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, who are voting for him because they feel both parties left them on the economic battlefield.

  John Brabender

  Daughter, Party, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Florida, Ohio

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.

  John Brabender

  Support, Might, Voters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

  Paul Ryan

  Senior, Obamacare, Choices

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

  Vin Scully

  New York, Guy, Balls

  "He Just Can't Kick the Baseball Habit" by Peter Leo, www.post-gazette.com. July 11, 2006.

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Bridges, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You [Hillary Clinton] go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Ohio, Devastation, Want

  Source: time.com

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• And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

  Ed Rendell

  Space, Quality, Purpose

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• I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Thinking, Forests, Natural

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• A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf?

  David Letterman

  Golf, Drunk, Waiting

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