Chris Murphy

Manufacturers and retailers in the private sector who have attempted to lead on this issue of gun safety technology have been regularly blacklisted.

What do you think about the need to give the Department of Education some new ability to intervene a little bit earlier?

I appreciate your focus on this.

It's not really any good to have a Federal education law if it's not also a civil rights law.

We want to help people in far off lands, but we are really doing it as part and parcel of our national security strategy

Contrary to popular opinion, we are spending less than 1 percent of our Federal budget on foreign aid, including health programs.

The takeaway from the massive infusion of money that we put into Ebola is not that that is a failsafe way to attack these epidemics...

Senator Warren was making a very persuasive and passionate case for the need for robust domestic funding to try to get ahead of these crises.

I think a lot of people in this country take for granted the public health infrastructure that exists nationally and at the local level.

We would not be supporting a longer sort of proxy kind of effort. That is one of the reasons why I say to you we think it is important now to get to the table and negotiate.

I think at the root of your answer is that the alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia requires us to come to their aid when they feel threatened.

That is a smart investment. I know you would want to spend more, if you could.

It is much more important to take chances, to take risks on diplomacy.

We view them as integral to our national security policy as the investments we are making in the submarines and jet engines and helicopters.

I will try to do my part as well.

I think there are many of us in this Congress who believe that security comes first and worry that pacing out those other reforms too quickly ultimately undermines security.

I worry sometimes that we are asking the Ukrainians to make economic reforms in the middle of an invasion that are simply unrealistic.

We cannot relent. And you are going to be going to a country that has some misgivings about automatic renewal.

I think the situation on the ground in Ukraine would be fundamentally different if it was not for the decisions that you made.

Spending time in the Balkans is just an advertisement for how poorly resourced we are when it comes to our foreign aid budget.

We need to help support the basic institutions which can get out alternate messages to the one which the Russians are trying to send out.

We have got to find some ways, potentially in the absence of major new appropriations for programs like that from the Congress, to create some tighter connections.

We cannot expect that a country like Serbia is going to make a choice. We should not.

A country like Serbia desperately wants--I think Vucic generally wants an alliance with Europe and an alliance with the West.

It strikes me that the backstop to the visa waiver program is the no-fly list, is our ability to determine who should and who should not be on these flights.