Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

I think we're recommending to [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] no more than 300 people coming to Pittsburgh this week, and a greater amount in Philadelphia, ... The key is to get it right. The temptation is to say, 'Send us everyone you need,' but we don't want their experience in Pennsylvania to be an unsatisfactory one. We're taking these people with the idea that they might be with us for four or five or six months.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.