"I think people who are in Connecticut feel like these protocols are working and they`re willing to hang in there a little longer to stay safe."
"One thing has come crystal clear to me why it's important that we have this emergency declaration is, it gives us the opportunity to get more testing capacity faster for all the people of the state of..."
"Whatever I'm doing with emergency powers is specifically related to COVID, nothing else."
"If I`m a Neanderthal, I`m a Neanderthal with a mask."
"We`re twice as likely to wear a mask as they are in Texas. We`re twice as likely to be vaccinated. We`re half as likely to be infected."
"The whole purpose of a bar is the opposite of social distancing."
"Testing, testing, testing, we're in there testing in every facility on a weekly basis, Chris."
"A, it's the right thing to do for those seniors. And B, hopefully, don't get any complications, don't have to go to the hospital, and frees up capacity for other people in the hospital."
"I think I lead with public health. And if you want to get this economy going, public health has got to be the key metric or we're never going to get this economy back."
"One of the reasons we got hit is we have more people more likely to be in nursing homes in most other states in the country."
"I haven't calculated it, but I'm afraid there could be a sea change."
"I worry about people taking that, and taking them literally, and how dangerous that is."