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Vivek Ramaswamy: “Implementing an economic vision that would create a new…”

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 08:25

The reason I say that is I'm running to lead. I was running at the time to lead the country, and I was serious about the pursuit of bringing the country together, about actually Implementing an economic vision that would create a new American dream. That was the premise of my candidacy to revive our sense of national identity in a way that went far beyond our standard racial or partisan boundaries. (08:25–08:30)

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Asserts he has an economic vision aimed at revitalizing the American dream.

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Vivek Ramaswamy

“An average student in the United States is five years behind Singapore, four years behind the average student in China.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 15:35-15:41
“20 kids a year are born with this rare congenital disease where 100% of them died by the age of three if untreated.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 49:11-49:20
“The therapy that we got through FDA approval, 70% of those kids now are able to live lives of normal.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 49:20-49:25
“One [company] is a biotech company that developed five medicines that are approved today.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 03:53-47:13
“One [medicine] is a life-saving therapy in kids.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 03:53-49:20
“I'm running to lead [the country], and I was serious about the pursuit of bringing the country together.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 08:16-08:30
“Revive our sense of national identity in a way that went far beyond our standard racial or partisan boundaries.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 08:31-08:39
“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…”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 11:13-11:21
“Think about younger people who came along in droves in the end for, for President Trump in the 2024 election.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 11:26-11:33
“They're not watching MSNBC, they're not watching Fox News, they don't have cable.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 11:34-11:39
“In business, if you're right, it absolutely rewards you and pays more to be early.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 12:25-12:31
“In politics, it absolutely does not pay to be early.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 15:04-15:10
“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.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 24:33-24:37
“I've actually been able to do and accomplish more in these last couple of years by at times slowing up the pace.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 27:30-27:37
“We are expecting a third [child].”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 34:43-34:48
“I've built several companies, four companies.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 46:30-46:33
“I started that company really only a little over 10 years ago.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 47:21-47:25
“Another one's a drug for prostate cancer...it's for the exact kind of prostate cancer that [President Biden] has.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 49:38-49:42
“Another for endometriosis and uterine fibroids, which are women's health conditions that had traditionally been ignored by much of the…”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 49:58-50:08
“We were able. That wouldn't exist in the world but for the company that I founded.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 50:13-50:18
“The first company was called Royvin.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 50:43-50:45
“Next company I started was a company called Chapter that pairs elder Americans with Medicare plans that they don't know actually exist.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 50:45-50:55
“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.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 55:04-55:12
“Public policy can and definitely ought to affect the way our education system functions.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 57:16-57:21
“Education policy is set at the level of the states.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 57:21-57:29
“Our public schools are run today without any performance management system.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 59:07-59:12
“The average student in China is four years ahead and in Singapore is five years ahead of an average student in the United States.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:00:57-1:01:03
“The education system, the time horizon we're talking about is a decade or decade and a half.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:02:39-1:02:43
“There's one school in Ohio that adopted merit-based pay, performance-based outcomes for teachers.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:02:48-1:02:57
“Not a single one of our 50 states [prioritizes performance and rewards success in education] today.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:03:53-1:03:53
“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.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:05:04-1:05:12
“We have more people moving out of our state right now than moving in.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:05:27-1:05:31
“The people who are moving out are the ones who actually tend to be our younger, educated citizens.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:05:31-1:05:36
“I want Ohio to be a home in a hub for small modular nuclear reactors.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:11:17-1:11:22
“A lot of those regulations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the federal level today are actually unconstitutional because Congress…”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:11:33-1:11:40
“Republicans control all three branches of the federal government in my home state, all three branches of the state government.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:16:59-1:17:05
“We ought to focus on our vision of the future and where we're headed.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:17:49-1:17:55
“I'm focused on education. I'm focused on economic empowerment in Ohio, reversing our population decline.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:21:11-1:21:17
“Most of the businesses that I've built are already at a stage where they're operating on their own feet.”
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65 | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 1:21:54-1:22:03