Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

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.

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.

I arrived in Hartford as a 25-year-old naive state legislator who believed in universal health care. I rose to become the 29-year-old Chairman of the legislature's Health Committee.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

I think most of the Washington foreign policy establishment exists in a fantasy world when it comes to Syria. They fundamentally don't understand that Russia and Iran, from the beginning, had much more at stake in Syria than the United States did. Russia and Iran were going to do everything possible in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

We have a long, proud history of making things here in Connecticut. We're home to large companies like Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky, as well as their thousands of suppliers.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.

It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail's pace. But remember that great change takes time.

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.

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.