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I play in the congressional baseball game.
- Chris Murphy
#Baseball
#Congressional
#Game
#Play
There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.
- Chris Murphy
#Chance
#Disaster
#Person
#Seeing
#Speak
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.
- Chris Murphy
#American
#Communication
#Great
#Open
People should remember that in the 2000s, the gun lobby got a lot passed: they got riders added to appropriations bills. They got immunity for the gun industry. They successfully managed the expiration of the assault weapons ban.
- Chris Murphy
#Bills
#Gun
#Industry
#People
#Remember
We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.
- Chris Murphy
#Believe
#Edge
#Simply
#Sword
#World
American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.
- Chris Murphy
#American
#Legal
#Policy
#Revenge
#Will
You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.
- Chris Murphy
#America
#Explain
#Gun
#Lead
#Violence
The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.
- Chris Murphy
#Act
#Congress
#Health
#Law
#Reform
There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.
- Chris Murphy
#Country
#Gun
#Local
#National
#Violence
There is no doubt Assad deserves every missile we fire at him, but there's one big problem with air strikes - there is absolutely no proof it has any deterrent effect on Assad. To the contrary, history tells us these strikes will most likely quicken the pace of his assault on his own people.
- Chris Murphy
#Air
#Doubt
#Fire
#History
#People
There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.
- Chris Murphy
#Evidence
#Gun
#Guns
#More
#Zero
The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They're not vetted through my communications staff.
- Chris Murphy
#Out
#Send
#Somebody
#Staff
#Through
America doesn't have the moral authority or weight to tip the scales in this fight between moderate Islam and less tolerant Islam. Muslim communities and Muslim nations need to be leading edge of this fight.
- Chris Murphy
#America
#Authority
#Edge
#Fight
#Need
One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.
- Chris Murphy
#Job
#Make
#Programs
#Smartest
#Training
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
- Chris Murphy
#Fear
#Life
#Political
#Portrait
#World
The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.
- Chris Murphy
#Family
#Long
#Political
#Speech
#War
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.
- Chris Murphy
#Addiction
#Cure
#Hubris
#Middle
#Yemen
Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.
- Chris Murphy
#Action
#Important
#Rings
#Sympathy
American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.
- Chris Murphy
#Change
#Corruption
#Fight
#Independence
I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.
- Chris Murphy
#Finance
#Public Service
#Service
#Time
Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I've made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.
- Chris Murphy
#Communication
#Process
#Social Media
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