Quotes from Chris Murphy

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.

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.

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's trauma and by other people's emotional experience with it, and I think I'm richer for that, frankly.

America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.

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.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

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.

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

I think Donald Trump believes in putting a wall around America and hoping everything turns out OK.

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

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.

If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.

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 Chairman of the legislature's Health Committee.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

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

I actually don't believe that the Administration wants war, but I also think they are all tactics and no strategy. Plan seems to be escalation with no endgame, and no understanding of how Iranian psychology actually works.

The ushers here wore green blazers. They were young, and they were huge. Bradford must have had a height requirement for his ushers, because none of these guys were less than six feet tall.

Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.

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.

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

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.

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.

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.