100 Quotes by Ro Khanna

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

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.

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.

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

I think we need to have stronger antitrust enforcement.

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.

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.