From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown. Chris Murphy More Quotes by Chris Murphy More Quotes From Chris Murphy 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 political war long 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 social-media communication media way One of my chief criticisms of U.S. international policy is that Congress has largely abdicated its foreign policy-making responsibilities to the executive branch. Chris Murphy executive-branch policy congress 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 person disaster chance speak Connecticut farmers keep our economy running. Chris Murphy keep our farmers economy Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it. Chris Murphy mental mental-health health broken The world is a mess, and while there is no simple pill America can administer to fix things, what we know is that there is significant room for progressives to articulate a foreign policy vision that is truly our own. Chris Murphy know vision simple world We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword. Chris Murphy sword something believe world From the outside, Qatar and U.A.E. likely look like twins - small, oil-rich Sunni monarchies that are largely friendly to the U.S. But their philosophies on the region are very different - Qatar does not fear Islamism as does the U.A.E. Chris Murphy small like look fear ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored. Chris Murphy cannot never like army The American people didn't send us to Congress to post our sympathies on social media. You can do that without going through the trouble of getting elected to Congress. This job is about setting rules that better protect us and our children. Chris Murphy you social-media children people Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action. Chris Murphy rings important action sympathy I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, 'President Obama doesn't have a strategy to defeat ISIS.' It's their calling card on the committee - and on the campaign trail. Chris Murphy man colleagues rich time 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 fight islam moral america The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East. Chris Murphy got never middle-east middle The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted in billions funneled to and through the Wahhabi movement. Chris Murphy old nation political house Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program. Chris Murphy sharing congress information country The European Union needs a comprehensive, continent-wise, transnational counter-terrorism center that has the authority to track threats across borders. Chris Murphy european-union borders authority Terrorist groups are working and communicating across E.U. borders - our efforts to track those groups must do so as well. Chris Murphy well must track borders The senator is right: I’m not going to engage in a colloquy on the merits of this request or the previous request. This isn’t real. This is a TV show, this is clickbait, this is theater. This isn’t an actual attempt to pass legislation. Chris Murphy
