Quotes from Ro Khanna

People in this country should be able to find economic opportunity and meaningful jobs in the places they grew up.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

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.

We've got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that's going to work for their families in an empowering way.

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

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.

What makes the Amazon-Whole Foods deal so problematic is that they are going into an industry with large infrastructure, brick-and-mortar cost, and seeking to build consolidation where we already suffer from consolidation. It's not like Walmarts and Targets have been good for wages or local grocery stores or niche producers.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

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.

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

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

If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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