Ro Khanna Quotes

Ro Khanna

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 13, 1976

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.

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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?

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Imagine a world where Apple, Google, and Intel were Chinese companies. It would be scary.

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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.

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Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

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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.

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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.

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My honest answer to what's going to happen to the future of jobs is I don't know.

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