Words matter. These are the best Ro Khanna Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.
If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.
I want to help bring tech jobs to middle America and help us create more innovation clusters.
We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.
An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it’s hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.
I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human rights and a nation that was weary of foreign entanglements and foreign alliances that did not keep us safe or promote our interests.
The Internet and virtual reality make it easier for people to stay rooted in their communities and work for companies headquartered elsewhere. The Internet has also created countless small businesses, triggering the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
Imagine a world where Apple, Google, and Intel were Chinese companies. It would be scary.
I’m obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.
Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn’t be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.
Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can’t just call the shots and expect change.
Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.
I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.
I think automation will eliminate certain types of jobs – lower income, lower-skilled jobs in manufacturing. But nobody knows whether it’s going to change the job basket of the 21st century, or be net positive, or net negative.
I do believe American leadership in the world matters, that we can’t just disengage from the world.
My wife grew up in Cleveland.
We must make it clear that we won’t interfere in other countries’ elections and work to make that the clear international norm.
My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India’s independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that’s empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It’s up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.
I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don’t think military intervention is going to get us there.
There’s no doubt we need stronger antitrust enforcement. We shouldn’t allow Amazon to privilege its own products on its platform, and we should make sure they’re not using sellers’ data, but the E.U. is not a model for America to copy.
We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don’t advance American interests.
We have an economy that’s really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?
In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.
We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.
Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.
No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.
I will oppose a Muslim registry with every fiber of my being. That is not the American way of conducting affairs and violates every principle we stand for.
Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I’d love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.
While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United States should not militarily overthrow him.
I’m not an apologist for Iran’s actions. Iran certainly has supported activities of terrorism, and the Houthis don’t have clean hands. The Houthis have engaged in crimes too. But the idea that that justifies American involvement in a civil war in Yemen doesn’t make any sense strategically.
As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients’ problems.
We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country – not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.
There’s so many people who’ve built America, much greater in sacrifice and contributions than Silicon Valley. There are people who’ve died for this country. There are people who have marched for civil rights in this country.
There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.
The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.
As a child growing up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, my connection to my Indian roots came from summer visits to New Delhi where my grandparents lived.
I’m for strong antitrust enforcement.
This idea you’re going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.
On so many issues, California leads the country.
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
Silicon Valley needs partners. You can’t do edited manufacturing just in the Valley. Why not have the DNA of manufacturing but combine it with the digital world?
Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans’ safety and the symbol of America’s future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That’s where you would be attacking the future economy.
