Chris Murphy Quotes

• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Life, Eye, Gun

  "Sandy Hook 2 years later: One senator's push for gun control" by Ashley Codianni, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

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

  Chris Murphy

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Meaningful, Hook, Legislation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Chris Murphy

  Wings, Fear Of The Unknown, Horns

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Winning, America

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Care, Rage

  Source: www.politico.com

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• No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

  Chris Murphy

  Evil, Forgiving, Needs

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• Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

  Chris Murphy

  Victory, Scare, Suggestions

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• I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

  Chris Murphy

  Wake Up

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Political, Republican

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.

  Chris Murphy

  Agency, Law, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

  Chris Murphy

  Smart, Lying, Eye

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• My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

  Chris Murphy

  Careers, Hook, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The absence of fear is love.

  Chris Murphy

  Fear, Absence

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• The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Political, Movement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

  Chris Murphy

  Brain, Stressful, Situation

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, President, Pace

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Mean, People, Tragedy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons.

  Chris Murphy

  Powerful, Hatred, Weapons

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• If [lawmakers] lose elections in part because of their votes on the background-check bill or their position on the terror gap bill, then there will be a rethinking of this issue within the Republican conference.

  Chris Murphy

  Issues, Bills, Gaps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Chris Murphy

  Exit, Domain, Doorstep

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

  Chris Murphy

  Military, Responsibility, Iraq

  Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT, twitter.com. June 13, 2014.

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