"I’m not looking to pick fights and I’m going down there out of respect for the peaceful transition of power."
"I think we appreciate the partnership with the President and the Federal government. It wasn't always that way."
"Look, I'm very thankful that President Biden is going to probably be making you know five million rapid tests available to the State of Connecticut, you know sometime in the next month or so."
"But in the meantime, you're right, we took matters into our own hands, we went out, we contracted and purchased three million rapid tests that are going to hit the ground over the next week, a big foc..."
"Well, broadly speaking, Jim, I'm trying to make it faster, easier for you to get vaccinated, to get tested, to do all the right things."
"I look at our nursing homes all the time and the number of nurses that are there, time for them to get a booster."
"Well, the C.D.C. bobs and weaves a little bit. That can be confusing, but overall, I think it's the right thing."
"CDC speaks Latin I can`t figure out who`s eligible, who`s not eligible. If you smoked while you were in high school back then 1970s you`re eligible. I think if you haven`t been vaccinated, or in you k..."
"I`ll tell you that through encouragement and incentives, we got about 88 of our adults vaccinated. We got the overwhelming majority of our nurses and teachers vaccinated, but that wasn`t good enough, ..."
"I think a lot of pride that we`re getting it right. That our schools are open and they don`t have to shut down for quarantine like what`s happening in other states."
"Right now, all of our higher ed institutions mandated vaccines for everybody. Overwhelmingly, people are complying with that."
"Chris, we got hit really hard very early along with New York and New Jersey. I think that this is a state where we look out for each other."