Chris Murphy quotes
Chris Murphy is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he is known for his advocacy on gun control and healthcare reform. He has become a prominent voice on foreign policy and public safety issues in the Senate. Here are 19 of his quotes:
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 methodically cultivated by the gun lobby, designed to assure that no laws are passed to make America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits...As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets. Ask yourself – how can you claim that you respect human life while choosing fealty to weapons-makers over support for measures favored by the vast majority of your constituents?
Chris Murphy
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 choose to allow it to happen. We have a celebratory culture of guns, and the loosest firearms laws in the world.
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 of Congress. Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby.
Chris Murphy
There are Republicans, friends of mine, that I talk to that are very concerned about what's going on. It is not easy for a Republican to take on a president of their own party in the first thirty days. Don't assume their silence today means they will be forever silent.
They haven't moved to the place where I think is sufficient. But you are seeing some early signs here. I don't want to predict that we're all going to be kumbaya, Republicans and Democrats fighting the Trump administration on a daily basis but I think this is a very uncomfortable moment for a lot of Republicans.
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
Occupation: American Politician
Born: August 3, 1973
Quotes count: 19
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