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Vivek Ramaswamy: “An average student in the United States is five years behind…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65

Published July 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:35

You're never going to get something worthy done unless you're focused on actually nailing it. And so I think about where my focus is right now. I look at An average student in the United States is five years behind Singapore, four years behind the average student in China. I think it's the single most important issue that nobody is seriously stepping up to address today. That's where I'm focused in my next step of my journey. (15:35–15:41)

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Asserts that U.S. students lag behind Singapore and China in education.

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“20 kids a year are born with this rare congenital disease where 100% of them died by the age of three if untreated.”
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“The therapy that we got through FDA approval, 70% of those kids now are able to live lives of normal.”
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“One [company] is a biotech company that developed five medicines that are approved today.”
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“One [medicine] is a life-saving therapy in kids.”
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“I'm running to lead [the country], and I was serious about the pursuit of bringing the country together.”
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“Implementing an economic vision that would create a new American dream.”
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“Revive our sense of national identity in a way that went far beyond our standard racial or partisan boundaries.”
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“The number one thing that I did that you were not supposed to do as a Republican candidate for any office was to commit the cardinal sin of…”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 10:39-10:48
“It was totally the normal thing that you were actually missing the boat if you weren't a Republican candidate on all the social media…”
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“Think about younger people who came along in droves in the end for, for President Trump in the 2024 election.”
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“They're not watching MSNBC, they're not watching Fox News, they don't have cable.”
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“In business, if you're right, it absolutely rewards you and pays more to be early.”
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“In politics, it absolutely does not pay to be early.”
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“I think I would have been a better candidate and leader of the country in the scenario of my last run for US President had I done that…”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 24:10-24:19
“Not just in the campaign, but even in leading this state as governor.”
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“I've actually been able to do and accomplish more in these last couple of years by at times slowing up the pace.”
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“We are expecting a third [child].”
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“I've built several companies, four companies.”
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“I started that company really only a little over 10 years ago.”
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“Another one's a drug for prostate cancer...it's for the exact kind of prostate cancer that [President Biden] has.”
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“Another for endometriosis and uterine fibroids, which are women's health conditions that had traditionally been ignored by much of the…”
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“We were able. That wouldn't exist in the world but for the company that I founded.”
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“The first company was called Royvin.”
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“Next company I started was a company called Chapter that pairs elder Americans with Medicare plans that they don't know actually exist.”
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“I think it starts with the education system. I think that our education system, it's a huge necessity in Ohio and in the country.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 54:55-55:03
“We have an education system that slowly has devolved into deprioritizing the actual success and achievement of our students.”
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“Public policy can and definitely ought to affect the way our education system functions.”
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“Education policy is set at the level of the states.”
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“Our public schools are run today without any performance management system.”
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“The average student in China is four years ahead and in Singapore is five years ahead of an average student in the United States.”
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“The education system, the time horizon we're talking about is a decade or decade and a half.”
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“There's one school in Ohio that adopted merit-based pay, performance-based outcomes for teachers.”
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“Not a single one of our 50 states [prioritizes performance and rewards success in education] today.”
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“We're going to bring down property taxes and we're going to eliminate eventually to zero the income tax in Ohio.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:04:24-1:04:31
“If we become a zero capital gains tax state, capital owners from across the country are going to choose Ohio as a place to own those assets.”
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“We have more people moving out of our state right now than moving in.”
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“The people who are moving out are the ones who actually tend to be our younger, educated citizens.”
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“I want Ohio to be a home in a hub for small modular nuclear reactors.”
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“A lot of those regulations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the federal level today are actually unconstitutional because Congress…”
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“Republicans control all three branches of the federal government in my home state, all three branches of the state government.”
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“We ought to focus on our vision of the future and where we're headed.”
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“I'm focused on education. I'm focused on economic empowerment in Ohio, reversing our population decline.”
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“Most of the businesses that I've built are already at a stage where they're operating on their own feet.”
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