9 Quotes by John Cronin

We need to draw a new constituency and get people to start thinking differently,

The governor's commitment is a really big thing for momentum. It also launches our major private fundraising drive. We've asked private fundraisers and foundations to wait for this announcement because it's accompanied by conceptual details of the first facility.

Every day we make decisions that could have a profound impact on the Hudson.

At some point on the Hudson River, you might have 154 miles of fiber-optic cable that connects remote sensors to a central point. For researchers, that would be an invaluable source of information. For students, it would mean they could sit down at a personal computer and type in latitude, longitude and depth of water and actually see on their screens what's happening in the river.

It seems that they're bent on destroying the structure of government itself,

It was beautiful. It took a while to get in. That is one of the proud moments of my life, pulling that sucker in.

It will be a marriage of science, engineering, public policy and education.

The Hudson's agenda cannot have any more strings attached. The future should be based on the standard philosophy that biological integrity is the limiting factor.

The environmental movement hasn't been successful with daily values, ... The civil rights movement never lost sight of the fact that it was inherently a moral issue, that it was not just an unjust treatment of someone on a bus, but also how future generations were going to be treated. That doesn't mean that people have to be badgered, just that they have to have it brought into their daily lives.