Andrew Yang

We need to wake up to the fact that it is not immigrants who are causing economic dislocations. It is technology and an evolving economy that is pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines.

Asking the government to fix our economy is like asking an editor to fix a movie, but in this case, the editor's not even of one mind.

The reason Donald Trump was elected was that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If you look at the voter data, it shows that the higher the level of concentration of manufacturing robots in a district, the more that district voted for Trump.

As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I'm obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.