Quotes from Chris Murphy

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

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.

Our veterans made a commitment to our country when they signed up.

There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.

Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.