A biography for Chris Murphyhasn’t been written yet.
“I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.”
“Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.”
“We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.”
“In 2013 and 2014, I traveled to Ukraine three times with Senator John McCain.”
“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 skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.”
“Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.”
“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.”
“America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.”
“The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.”
“You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.”
“Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.”
“Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.”
“The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.”
“With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy.”
“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.”
“Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.”
“I would respectfully disagree that the right to own a military-style weapon is a God-given right. I didn't see that anywhere in the Bible that I read.”
“If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.”
“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.”