Words matter. These are the best Chris Murphy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m generally pretty responsible and diligent, but people make mistakes.
There is no doubt Assad deserves every missile we fire at him, but there’s one big problem with air strikes – there is absolutely no proof it has any deterrent effect on Assad. To the contrary, history tells us these strikes will most likely quicken the pace of his assault on his own people.
Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.
Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.
I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.
There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.
I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.
Our veterans made a commitment to our country when they signed up.
If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.
Terrorist groups are working and communicating across E.U. borders – our efforts to track those groups must do so as well.
In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria’s benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.
America doesn’t have the moral authority or weight to tip the scales in this fight between moderate Islam and less tolerant Islam. Muslim communities and Muslim nations need to be leading edge of this fight.
The world is a mess, and while there is no simple pill America can administer to fix things, what we know is that there is significant room for progressives to articulate a foreign policy vision that is truly our own.
In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don’t restrict anybody’s Second Amendment rights.
We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.
In 2013 and 2014, I traveled to Ukraine three times with Senator John McCain.
I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.
From the outside, Qatar and U.A.E. likely look like twins – small, oil-rich Sunni monarchies that are largely friendly to the U.S. But their philosophies on the region are very different – Qatar does not fear Islamism as does the U.A.E.
There’s zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.
Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time – years and sometimes decades.
Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions – donations for votes – and those that cross this line normally get caught.
We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.
Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.
The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.
You can only explain America’s gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn’t automatically lead to violence, and it doesn’t lead to violence anywhere else but America.
The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.
Most elected officials don’t want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
People are working hard, they’re doing everything we ask of them, and they are still struggling. It’s not enough to just have a job. We need to make sure that these are good-paying jobs that pay the rent and put food on the table. Jobs that have benefits like health care and that allow people to save for retirement.
The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They’re not vetted through my communications staff.
I don’t require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans.
I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that it is – that it isn’t coincidental to the concurrent rapid spread of a very conservative strain of Islam that is paid for out of Saudi Arabia.
The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted in billions funneled to and through the Wahhabi movement.
As lawmakers, our job is to listen to our constituents. If our phones are ringing off the hook with people demanding to know where we stand on an issue, we pay attention.
American values don’t begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.
Washington can be a frustrating place.
Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.
ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen – they cannot be ignored.
We have a long, proud history of making things here in Connecticut. We’re home to large companies like Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky, as well as their thousands of suppliers.
The European Union needs a comprehensive, continent-wise, transnational counter-terrorism center that has the authority to track threats across borders.
I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.
