Chris Murphy

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

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

"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…"

"When the U.S. is an active participant in a foreign war, what comes with that is an increased responsibility to try to rescue civilians from the harm done in part by U.S. munitions and U.S. targeting."

"Don't be disheartened. Your voices are being heard and we will keep fighting."

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

"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 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…"