Chris Murphy

“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.”

“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.”

“Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.”

“The NRA has become financially dependent on more and more guns being sold - especially the expensive ones. In turn, the NRA has stated that its top legislative priority is to protect gun makers by advocating for legislation that benefits them.”

“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.”

“Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.”

“I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, 'President Obama doesn't have a strategy to defeat ISIS.' It's their calling card on the committee - and on the campaign trail.”

“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.”

“The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They're not vetted through my communications staff.”

“The Choose Medicare Act will let people of all ages buy into Medicare as their health care plan, and it would let any business also buy into Medicare and offer it to its employees.”

“I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.”

“It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.”

“When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.”

“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.”

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

“The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East.”

“As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.”

“American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.”

“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.”

“I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.”