Words matter. These are the best Patrick Murphy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.
The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.
I was as middle class as it comes.
My dad’s a Republican. My dad’s my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad’s Republican, so that’s what I decided to register as.
We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man climate change are negatively impacting our way of life. This should be a bipartisan task that finds support with bipartisan solutions.
Whether it’s threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that’s backward.
What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate – let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law – that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?
There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words ‘climate change’ aloud.
There’s certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I’m not going to compromise on; I’m not going to compromise on a woman’s right to choose and on marriage equality.
Politically speaking, Miami-Dade was once a Republican stronghold, thanks in large part to older Cuban voters who became more politically influential following the Bay of Pigs invasion. In contrast, Democrats used to rely on votes in North Florida and the Space Coast in an era of much softer partisanship.
The closely divided presidential election of 2000 – in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida – forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.
My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Citizens United was no victory for free speech.
In the 2016 U.S. Senate race, I was on the receiving end of more than $3 million in outside negative attacks funded by the NRA, the second-most spent on any Senate campaign in the country.
As the country’s third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
Voters want to get things done.
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation’s response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.
