“My view, as someone who is running for U.S. president, responding to the question about the Supreme Court case, was that Roe v. Wade was correct to be turned on constitutional grounds. It was made-up jurisprudence … it leads also to the path to moving forward, which is, that I think the federal government should stay out of it. I think I’m the only Republican candidate in this field who has come out and said, ‘I would not support a federal abortion ban of any kind.’ On principled ground, because I am grounded in constitutional principles, and I think there’s no legal basis for the federal government to legislate. I’m personally a believer that unborn life is life. I think that the pro-life movement needs to walk the walk when it comes to being pro-life. What do I mean? I’m pro-contraception. I’m pro-adoption. I’m pro-child care. I’m pro-more responsibility for men.”

"I do support ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood on a number of grounds … The federal government should not be spending money on funding its favorite pet causes.”

"Rather than spending billions projecting power into global vacuums where our allies will not spend to maintain it themselves, we will put America First again—as George Washington urged—as we recalibrate and consider our true interests."

“I think that we have to recognize that the real enemy we face today is the CCP (Chinese Communist Party); that is the real cold war of our century.”

One reason in relation to our involvement with Ukraine:“We're depleting U.S. military resources to dangerously low levels that we need in other conflict situations.”

 "I actually do think our relationship with Israel has advanced American interests. I come out on the side of that. Here's what I want to see happen, though. I want to negotiate – I'm a dealmaker, OK? I want to negotiate now Abraham Accords 2.0, get Saudi [Arabia], Oman, Qatar, Indonesia in there, get Israel on its own two feet, and I believe in standing by commitments that we've already made, so our commitments have, I think, $38 billion in aid, military support, etc., going in through 2028. I want to get Israel to the place where it is negotiated back into the infrastructure of the rest of the Middle East."

“No cuts for seniors on Social Security or Medicare. We have to stand by the commitments we’ve already made as a basic backdrop of trust."

"First, it will be a plan that reduces the size of the federal employee headcount by over 75% if I'm the next president, by the end of my first term, 50% of which is implementable by the end of year one."

“Biden’s student loan forgiveness disaster is effectively a regressive tax disguised as a progressive policy. Barely over 1/3 Americans get a 4-year degree, yet Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan forces every citizen to pay for anti-American gender-studies majors. It’s a scam.”

"I think that building the wall is not and has not been enough. They are now building tunnels underneath that wall, literally underground tunnels that are being used to bring in illegal migrants and even to support human trafficking and drug trafficking. I would use our own military to secure our own southern border. I think that is legally, ethically and constitutionally justified. That is how we seal the southern border. In fact, I think it's going to be an approach that we will eventually need to seal our own northern border as well.”

1. “I favor ending birthright citizenship for the kids of illegal immigrants in this country. So nobody believes that the kid of a Mexican diplomat in this country enjoys birthright citizenship. Not a judge or legal scholar in this country will disagree with me on that,” Ramaswamy added. “Well, if the kid of a Mexican diplomat doesn’t enjoy birthright citizenship, then neither does the kid of an illegal immigrant who broke the law to come here.” Source
2. “The lottery system needs to be replaced by actual meritocratic admission. It’s a form of indentured servitude that only accrues to the benefit of the company that sponsored an H-1B immigrant. I’ll gut it. The people who come as family members are not the meritocratic immigrants who make skills-based contributions to this country.” Source

“I think that ‘Remain in Mexico’ is absolutely essential to create the incentives for Mexico to take control of its own borders and its own sovereignty.”

You can’t just “reform” the administrative state. You need to *shut it down.* The U.S. President is empowered by Article II of the U.S. Constitution to do it. I will—starting with the head of the snake: the U.S. Department of Education. Here’s how. Cut ~$8 billion in bureaucracy. The remaining $119 billion would be reassigned: - $52 billion (41%) to states to improve educational quality with school choice. - $61 billion (47.5%) to the Department of the Treasury to take care of outstanding student loans & grants, as an intermediate step to re-privatizing student loans by undoing the disastrous Obama-led damage. - $6 billion (4.5%) to the Department of Labor for vocational rehabilitation and workforce education programs. - Less than $500,000 (0.3%) to the National Council on Disability and Department of State for key programs.

SHUT DOWN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. I’ll do it. Here’s how.”

"I favor school choice on steroids...starve the bureaucracy of broken public schools."

1. Ramaswamy wants to “Withhold federal funding for cities that refuse to protect Americans from violent crime.” Source. 2. “The same cities that want to ‘clear the jails,’ ‘defund the police,’ and stop arresting violent criminals are the *same* cities that want to take away guns from law-abiding citizens. That’s a formula for the disintegration of a nation.” Source.

Ramaswamy has described his views as one of a “Second Amendment absolutist.”

“I grew up in a traditional household. My parents taught me that family is the foundation… Respect your parents. Marriage is sacred. Abstinence before marriage. Adultery is wrong. Marriage is between a man and a woman… We’re here for a purpose and to pursue that purpose. Is that a strange or foreign set of values—I don’t think so?”

“Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder. We have to acknowledge the truth of that for what it is...It is not compassionate to affirm a kid's confusion. That is not compassion. That is cruelty...I will ban genital mutilation or chemical castration..." 

“I’m Hindu, and I’m proud of that...I’ve actually read the Bible much more closely than many of, probably most of, my Christian friends. I got a religion award back when I was at St. X High School in Cincinnati.”

Here's the way forward on election integrity: 1. Single Day Voting. 2. Make Election Day a National Holiday. 3. Paper Ballots. 4. Government-issued voter ID matched to the identification on file. If we achieve this, I will lead *all Americans* regardless of political party to move beyond the debates about election outcomes or ballot fraud. This is easily doable & should not be controversial.

‘[America] must confront the issue of critical race theory and reject the idea that America is inherently racist. Instead, we should celebrate the diversity of our nation and work to create a society that is truly equal and just for all individuals, regardless of their race or ethnicity.’

"There are two sexes. If you have XX chromosomes, you're a woman. If you have XY chromosomes, you're a man."

“I believe that women's sports are reserved for biological women.”

Vivek Ramaswamy signed the "Presidential Promise to American Women" pledge which is a pledge to protect the dignity of women.

“The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”

“...[N]uclear energy...is the best form of carbon-free energy production known to mankind." Source (3:00)"Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity." Source