Ro Khanna

“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.”

“If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.”

“The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.”

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

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

“The fruits of the economy and all the advantages of technology and globalization have gone far more to the investor class and the professional class and not as much to the working class. Partly because of the loss of labor unions, partly because of things like a lack of antitrust enforcement, policies that have privileged shareholder returns.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I have helped shape in the past the Democratic Party's agenda on innovation.”