Chris Murphy Quotes

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don’t pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that’s going to be really impactful. I will certainly defer to her when it comes to the exact pace and content of legislative action, but I expect it will be at the top of her agenda. It will certainly be at the top of mine.

There are all sorts of shades of gray when you’re working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There’s no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn’t even represent its own members.

One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn’t always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.

At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.

There’s no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i’m hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people’s eyes.

A domain exits where concepts can’t go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.