Mark Connolly Quotations

Leave our boundaries alone. Let us solve our own problems.

Like many regions, it is hard to single out specific countries, usually because the data and the access to testing is quite limited. But it is fair to recognize that the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, as examples, are coming to terms with the fact that they do have serious epidemics.

We've got some people up there who clearly feel they know what is best for our children and they are not very interested in hearing what we have to say. If they did that to us, look out in other parts of the county, because they are going to do it to you next.

What we have seen in Eastern Europe, particularly in some of the former Soviet republics, is just a very accelerated increase in infection, primarily through intravenous drug use.

What are we going to do? Sit around and hang our heads down?

They've waked a sleeping giant. They really have. This has been a real eye-opening experience for me.

For the past several months, this office has been reviewing certain alleged improprieties regarding Tyco International.