Chris Murphy

"I wanted to show some of the faces of Washington’s inaction — to share a small sliver of the lives we’ve lost because our nation is overflowing with guns. This issue is only controversial in the halls…"

"There is a big open space in the Democratic Party right now."

"There is not something fundamentally different about the American DNA that causes us to have a level of gun violence that is 20 times that of other first-world nations....It happens here because we ch…"

"I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforc…"

"The world is more chaotic today in part because the United States doesn’t help you when it comes to promoting stability."

"You have entire communities whose biologies are being changed by gun violence."

"A progressive foreign policy isn’t just looking at the back-end of terrorism, but is also looking at the front-end of terrorism."

"The paralysis you feel right now – the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen – isn’t real. It's a fiction created and method…"