Top 75 Ro Khanna Quotes

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.

The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.

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.

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

I want to help bring tech jobs to middle America and help us create more innovation clusters.

I don’t believe we would’ve had nearly as diverse a Congress if it weren’t for social media. I don’t think that there would be the same appreciation or empathy for human rights across the world if it weren’t for social media.

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

Both the Venezuelan and American people will be better served by a negotiated solution between Maduro and Guaido than by a conflict that leads to increased instability and violence.

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.

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.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America’s greatest contribution to human civilization.

We can’t have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We’ve got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.

The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn’t offer a compelling enough vision.

We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation… or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation’s call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.

I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.

There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro’s base and trigger displays of military force, potentially plunging Venezuela into a civil war.

America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.

We must make it clear that we won’t interfere in other countries’ elections and work to make that the clear international norm.

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.

On so many issues, California leads the country.

We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.

Our troops shouldn’t be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.

This idea you’re going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution’s gains with equity, and we’re going through something similar with the technology revolution.

I’m obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to know what’s happening to our data and whether it’s being transferred.

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?

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.

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.

Let us focus on developing our capabilities and talents here at home to be a model for the world.

Our family’s values come from my grandfather’s embrace of a Gandhian worldview.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

Gandhi reminded those who followed his faith that perhaps its most important aspect was its commitment to oneness.

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.

All Americans must have access to the Internet in today’s digital world, and the market needs competition to drive affordable prices.

Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.

I think we need to have stronger antitrust enforcement.

The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.

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.

My view is that we shouldn’t be supplying the Saudis with arms while they’re bombing civilians in Yemen and, by the way, while they’re arming al-Qaida and it’s fighting our own counterterrorist operations in Yemen.

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.

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.

Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.

I’m for strong antitrust enforcement.

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.

For decades, I have watched neoconservatives paint those who oppose their interventionism as appeasers of dictators standing in solidarity with socialists, soft on Russia, naive about terrorism, lacking moral clarity and unappreciative of America’s unique role in the world.

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 mean, I don’t think the Facebook merger with WhatsApp and Instagram should have been approved. But I’m not for reflexively breaking up tech companies.

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, America’s free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.

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?

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

We’ve been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

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.

My travels around the country have led me to believe that many communities want this diversity of opportunity. They’re proud of the traditional industries, whether it’s coal or steel, or of course doing military service, but they want their kids to have opportunities beyond that.

One key question for the United States in the 21st century is whether noncoastal towns and rural communities, including many communities of color, will be able to participate in the digital revolution.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

If we can figure out how to give more Americans a shot in tech, a shot at the ordinary jobs that don’t necessarily afford rock star status or come with generous stock options but that can sustain middle-class life, then we might just take a step toward stitching our nation back together.

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.

I don’t think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet.