# Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy (born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, author, and political activist. In 2022, he co-founded Strive Asset Management and serves as the Executive Chairman. He is currently running in the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 United States presidential election.

## Quotes

* Diversity has become a term of art, a symbol, one so powerful that the symbol is now more important than the thing it was supposed to represent. Wokeness sacrifices true diversity, diversity of thought, so that skin-deep symbols of diversity like race and gender can thrive. Just like Christ in the story, true diversity of thought now represents a threat to the Church of Diversity.
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* Wokeness is the new orthodoxy, the new religion, one that disguises itself in secular clothing. Because its disciples worship the secular forces of identity rather than any supernatural one, it’s much easier for the Church of Diversity to infiltrate the workplace.
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* It’s a system of beliefs that stands as one indivisible unit and touches on all aspects of one’s existence. You aren’t allowed to consider the evidence and pick and choose which parts of wokeness you like. … Like Christianity and Islam, wokeness purports to provide a system of beliefs that explains everything, and it doesn’t allow its believers to pick and choose … … wokeness gives commands, not suggestions. … You’re not allowed to be a little woke, just like Christians can’t follow their five favorite commandments. […] It’s the structure that they use to make sense of the universe. Where a nonwoke person sees ordinary interactions, … a disciple of wokeness sees microaggressions. Just as a Christian sees God’s hand in all of Creation, someone who’s woke sees the guiding hand of identity-based power relations everywhere they look.
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* […] the defining scam of our time – one that robs you of not only your money but your voice and your identity.
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* Corporations never truly loved wokeness, even as they embraced it and married it to capitalism. They always intended to use it. But wokeness never truly loved capitalism, either. There was nothing fundamentally woke about capitalism, no natural compatibility. When corporations started proclaiming that wokeness and capitalism were inseparable and offering money and status to anyone who could help spread that message, each side accepted the proposal not because there was very much truth to it but because it was profitable. […]
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* In exchange, corporations got to wear the protective cloak of wokeness’s moral superiority.
** quoted from Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
* Republicans should use more rhymes when naming their laws. Instead of “don’t say gay,” they should’ve called it “wait until 8.” As in, wait until kids turn 8 years old before public schools teach them about sex. That would have avoided a national fuss about nothing.
* Twitter, 4:21 PM · Apr 2, 2022

### 2023

* We fought a civil war in this country to give black Americans the equal protection under the law that we failed to secure them in 1776. But then, you want to know what happened? Southern states passed anti-gun laws that stopped black people from owning guns; the Democrat Party, then as in now, wanted to put them back in chains.
** CNN This Morning with anchor Don Lemon and co-host Poppy Harlow, (April 19, 2023)
* Bari Weiss: The way that you're talking about the need to restore a national character, I cannot square that with your support of Donald Trump.
    Vivek Ramaswamy: Bari, I'm voting for myself in this election. I support myself in this election. I am running in a race where Donald Trump is running, actively expecting – and staking significant personal fortune and risk and family sacrifice on – defeating him in this primary, and then winning the general election.
   * "Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution" (at 1h1m52s), Honestly with Bari Weiss, 1 August 2023.
* [About 6 January 2020:] I'm not condoning what [Donald Trump] did. What he did was wrong. But the real cause of what happened on January 6 was censorship.
** "Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution" (at 1h23m18s), Honestly with Bari Weiss, 1 August 2023.
* The real election that was stolen was stolen from [Donald Trump] was the 2016 election, which I believe was stolen from him. He wasn't able to govern because of a fraudulent theory created by opposition research, that somehow the FBI bought to get a FISA warrant to stop a man from governing for the first two years as effectively as he might have done. I also believe that the Hunter Biden laptop story, if unsuppressed, the data would suggest it, I think you would agree on these facts if you look at the polling data, would have likely changed the outcome of what was otherwise a very close election. Most Americans did not have access to that story because it was systematically suppressed. If they did have access to it [...], there's strong evidence and polling data to suggest, that would have changed the outcome of the election. I have also said that I have seen no evidence of systematic ballot fraud that would have overturned the result of the 2020 election.
** "Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution" (at 1h23m42s), Honestly with Bari Weiss, 1 August 2023.
* If folks at home want to watch a bunch of people blindly bash Trump, they can just flip the channel and watch MSNBC right now. But I'm not running for President of MSNBC, I'm running for President of the United States.
** Post on X of comments during the first Republican Primary debate held in Milwaukee (August 23, 2023), as cited in "Trump Declares Ramaswamy Debate Winner for Calling Him the 'Best President of the 21st Century'", National Review (August 24, 2023)
* If we're successful, the true mark of success for the U.S. and for Israel would be to get to a 2028 where Israel is so strongly standing on its own two feet, integrated into the economic and security infrastructure of the rest of the Middle East, that it will not require and be dependent on that same level of historical aid or commitment from the U.S..
** "Sean Hannity CONFRONTS Vivek Over Israel Funding | Breaking Points" (at 3m28s), Breaking Points, 29 August 2023.

### 2024

* they spent trillions, killed millions, and made billions for themselves
** "Third GOP presidential primary debate 2024" (at 16m02s)
* What the MSM calls a “conspiracy theory” is often nothing more than an amalgam of incentives hiding in plain sight. Once you see that, the rest becomes pretty obvious.
** Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy Jan 29 2024

## Quotes about Vivek Ramaswamy

* [ Scott Adams About Vivek Ramaswamy:] Wouldn't you love to know, if there's an international event [...], that your guy – the guy representing your country – is the smartest one in the room? For once? For once?
** "Trump Must Win to Avoid Prison - Scott Adams" (at 52m43s), Triggernometry, 13 September 2023.

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