Chris Murphy

America's strength in the past has been our ability to bring family members to join other family members in the United States and to look at skills but not have it be the only determination of how you get here. ”

If you were a Democrat getting ready to run for office in the 2000s, as I was, you were told to stay clear of guns... I really regret that. I regret having listened to that advice. ”

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

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power. ”

American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening. ”

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. ”

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them. ”

For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding. ”

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 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. ”