Political Quotes

Ro Khanna

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Ro Khanna is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Khanna has focused on issues such as technology, economic justice, and transparency in government. He has been an advocate for progressive policies, including tax reform aimed at wealth inequality and increased accountability for corporations.

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Jul 26, 2026

It’s embarrassing to the United States and to the world community.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

America needs to cooperate with the ICC.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

You can’t just kill women and children, have an ICC arrest warrant, and then walk into the United States of America and think nothing is going to happen to you.

huffpost.com
Jul 26, 2026

He’s not a law-and-order president, and he doesn’t really care about human rights or international law.

dawn.com
Jul 26, 2026

The American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop.

huffpost.com
Jul 23, 2026

We have a country right now where all the capital is going to build AI, technology apps and financial firms, but we need capital also for our small and medium-sized businesses, for our manufacturers.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

We need to be developing not just New York and Silicon Valley and Austin – we need to be developing industry in the midwest, in the south-west, in the south, and I believe an industrial investment bank is a concrete step towards that.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

We need to now fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate.

commondreams.org
Jul 23, 2026

This is one of the boldest industrialization proposals since FDR’s industrialization efforts, and it’s in the tradition of Hamilton’s efforts.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

It would be an effort to re-industrialize the country.

theguardian.com
Jul 23, 2026

We need what I call the ‘modern Marshall plan for America’.

theguardian.com
Jul 17, 2026

Rep. Massie and I introduced our bill to release the Epstein files nearly a year ago. Since then, the DOJ has violated our law, delayed the release of millions of files, botched the redactions, and denied the survivors justice.

lujan.senate.gov
Jul 17, 2026

I oppose selling weapons to Israel that are used to kill Palestinians or sending aid that furthers this status quo.

realclearpolitics.com
Jul 16, 2026

I cannot vote for aid to a country that committed genocide and has used tax dollars to detain Americans like me.

commondreams.org
Jul 14, 2026

they're going to lose all aid, and we're going to stop military sales. Massie Amendment is a vote on ending aid. It may not pass now, but it certainly will pass in the next administration.

npr.org
Jul 14, 2026

the Israelis lie, that this government that lied about genocide has no problem lying about the detention of Americans, that there is an arrogance of power and that they're totally out of touch with the fact that Americans under 50 have…

npr.org
Jul 13, 2026

The Israeli government is lying to cover up for 4 IDF soldiers who aided violent settlers.

theguardian.com
Jul 13, 2026

And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 13, 2026

Let me be very specific: the prime minister needs to open an investigation on these violent settlers...

theguardian.com
Jul 13, 2026

How dare they mistreat people with an American passport that way?

theguardian.com
Jul 12, 2026

We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 12, 2026

And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 12, 2026

And these hoodlums … detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans.

theguardian.com
Jul 12, 2026

I saw the arrogance in the eyes of those settlers, 21- and 22-year-olds with guns, laughing that they had detained us, the arrogance of those young IDF soldiers that my tax dollars are funding – having no respect for the fact that they…

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