Chris Murphy

The lack of concern for life by Republicans, given their cavalier attitude about the 700,000 Americans who have died, given their complete uncaring attitude about the 100 people every single day who die from gun violence.

The gun lobby relies on the Republican Party, Republicans rely on the gun lobby.

The changes we're talking about in order to make our schools safe places, they're supported by the vast majority of Americans, Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans say that when it comes to vaccines, every individual should have control over their own body, the government has no business to tell you what to do. But when it comes to abortion, no individual should have a say over what…

It certainly appears that Republicans give up on kids once they're born.

It's time that we refuse to accept it. It's time that we do something about it.

We have a Republican Party... that is engaged in the celebration and fetishization of violence.

Do not lecture us about the sanctity, the importance of life when 100 people every single day are losing their lives to guns.

This only happens in the United States of America. There’s no other nation in the high-income world in which kids worry about being shot when they go to school. It happens here in America because we choose to let it happen.

I agree the primary and proximate cause is the unconscionable immoral leadership of the Maduro regime, but our sanctions can be contributory.

There is, of course, a flip side. There is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela today.

There was no plan B, so we were stuck for the next 3 years.

I think it is safe to say that President Trump's policy towards Venezuela was a failure.

Your primary criticism comes in year 19 so I am asking whether there was a flaw in design for years 1 through 18.

You seem to suggest we would not have done anything differently, in retrospect.

What does strategic patience look like, moving forward?

I think the stakes are that high right now, and while our legal system can`t be the complete check, it can be a big part of it. This was a good day today towards that end.

We need to start thinking of our legal system as a way to provide some check, some ability to control the worst most disgusting most abusive of these lies and conspiracies.

What I know is that Alex Jones was doing this because it fit into his world view, also because it got him ratings, because there is unfortunately a people out there removed from reality and willing to believe all of these wild concoctions…

I`m thrilled for the families. I was in touch with one of the lead plaintiffs, Erica Lafferty, whose mother was of the principal, the heroic principal at Sandy Hook Elementary, his evening. And I`m glad that Alex Jones and his movement is…

In today`s Republican Party, you get canceled for crossing party lines and applauded for publicly fantasizing about the murder of Democrats.

I think that`s an important script for us to follow moving forward, tell people what they`re getting but also tell people that we`re taking something from the folks that have frankly been fleecing the regular folks in this country for the…

Well, listen. I think people are openly questioning whether democracy works for them any longer. They are openly entertaining other offers which is why Trump`s neo-authoritarianism appeals to so many voters.

I think that what you are seeing come together is extraordinary and historic. And I think Joe Biden`s first year will go down as possibly the most consequential and impactful first year of any president in our lifetime.

We were denied the ability to move two nominees that under any other administration would have gone by voice vote.