Chris Murphy

They have fundamentally different problems than other people.

— Chris Murphy

Your 'thoughts' should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your 'prayers' should be for forgiveness if you do nothing -- again.

— Chris Murphy

Why did you sign up for this job if you are not prepared to use it — if you're not prepared to use it to try to solve big problems?

— Chris Murphy

There is not something fundamentally different about the American DNA that causes us to have a level of gun violence that is 20 times that of other first-world nations....It happens here because we choose to allow it to happen. We have a celebratory culture of guns, and the loosest firearms laws in the world.

— Chris Murphy

We have a moral obligation to act and not accept that this [gun violence] is inevitable.

— Chris Murphy

You have entire communities whose biologies are being changed by gun violence.

— Chris Murphy

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

— Chris Murphy

I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.

— Chris Murphy

Don't be disheartened. Your voices are being heard and we will keep fighting.

— Chris Murphy

My truth hierarchy: (1) health care is a human right (2) climate change is an existential threat (3) the Yankees suck.

— Chris Murphy

I wanted to show some of the faces of Washington’s inaction — to share a small sliver of the lives we’ve lost because our nation is overflowing with guns. This issue is only controversial in the halls of Congress. Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby.

— Chris Murphy

American values don’t begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers. American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.

— Chris Murphy

We bomb your country, creating a humanitarian nightmare, then lock you inside. That’s a horror movie, not a foreign policy.

— Chris Murphy

The world is more chaotic today in part because the United States doesn’t help you when it comes to promoting stability.

— Chris Murphy

When the U.S. is an active participant in a foreign war, what comes with that is an increased responsibility to try to rescue civilians from the harm done in part by U.S. munitions and U.S. targeting.

— Chris Murphy

A progressive foreign policy isn’t just looking at the back-end of terrorism, but is also looking at the front-end of terrorism.

— Chris Murphy

The world is more chaotic today in part because the United States doesn’t help you when it comes to promoting stability.

— Chris Murphy

There is a big open space in the Democratic Party right now.

— Chris Murphy

American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.

— Chris Murphy

Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I've made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.

— Chris Murphy

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

— Chris Murphy

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

— Chris Murphy

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

— Chris Murphy