Ro Khanna

“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.”

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

“In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.”

“On so many issues, California leads the country.”

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

“My wife grew up in Cleveland.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.”

“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.”

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

“Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Of course, America's free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.”

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

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