More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I worry that there are financial ties between the Trumps and the Saudi royal family. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate,… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
As lawmakers, our job is to listen to our constituents. If our phones are ringing off the hook with people demanding to… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
If [lawmakers] lose elections in part because of their votes on the background-check bill or their position on the terror gap bill,… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I arrived in Hartford as a 25-year-old naive state legislator who believed in universal health care. I rose to become the 29-year-old… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump believes in putting a wall around America and hoping everything turns out OK. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to… — Chris Murphy Copy Share
Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations. — Chris Murphy Copy Share
I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power. — Chris Murphy Copy Share
The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted… — Chris Murphy Copy Share
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. — Chris Murphy Copy Share
There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term,… — Chris Murphy Copy Share
There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system. — Chris Murphy Copy Share
It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on… — Chris Murphy Copy Share
I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that it is… — Chris Murphy Copy Share
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