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. Chris Murphy Read Quote
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. Chris Murphy Read Quote
What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to get a permit from their police department before they can carry a pistol. Chris Murphy Read Quote
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. Chris Murphy Read Quote
Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations. Chris Murphy Read Quote
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. Chris Murphy Read Quote
I think most of the Washington foreign policy establishment exists in a fantasy world when it comes to Syria. They fundamentally don’t understand that Russia and Iran, from the beginning, had much more at stake in Syria than the United States did. Russia and Iran were going to do everything possible in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power. Chris Murphy Read Quote
Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors. Chris Murphy Read Quote
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. Chris Murphy Read Quote
