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On Budget & Economy: Unleash the animal inside the heart of the American economy

On Principles & Values: Defining political debate is pro-American vs. anti-American

On Abortion: I believe that abortion is a form of murder

On Foreign Policy: Opposing Russia in Ukraine is not a top priority for us

RAMASWAMY: I do not think it is a top foreign policy priority for us. I don't think it is preferable for Russia to be able to invade a sovereign country that is its neighbor. But I think the job of the U.S. president is to look after American interests.

On Foreign Policy: Russia/China alliance is the top threat America faces

And no other candidate in either party is talking about this. I think that's the top threat we face. And that's the focus of my foreign policy.

On Government Reform: Shut down the FBI and replace it with something new

I think it's a new apparatus built from scratch that actually respects the law instead of making it up. When you have a bureaucracy whose culture becomes so ossified, every once in a while, you need to turn it over.

On Health Care: Gender dysphoria is suffering; we're creating more of it

Gender dysphoria, for the rare few people who have suffered it, is a condition of suffering. My question is, why on earth are we going out of our way to create even more of it? And there's no doubt that the cultural movement in this country, even education, is creating more gender dysphoria.

On Principles & Values: Blames Biden for special counsel & indictment of Trump

RAMASWAMY: I think we have to be able to draw a distinction between bad judgments and breaking the law. And when especially the federal police apparatus conflates the two, that's a threat to liberty for everyone, not just President Trump, but every American, where every misjudgment is treated as a violation of law.

Q: It is unprecedented.

RAMASWAMY: Based on the precedent of the Clinton sock drawer case, it is at the president's sole discretion as to what is and is not covered as a presidential record, I think the court will acquit him. If Trump's judgment was bad, President Biden's judgment is worse for actually bringing a prosecution.

Q: Pres. Biden didn't bring a prosecution.

RAMASWAMY: The Department of Justice reports into the President. And so this is a fig leaf. Get to the bottom of what Biden told [Attorney General Merrick] Garland and what Garland told [Special Counsel] Jack Smith.

On Principles & Values: Deliver national unity with our shared American identity

On Principles & Values: Capitalism has to stay apolitical to bring us together

And then, when that merges with capitalism, we lose the apolitical sanctuary in our economy, that otherwise brings us together, whether we're black or white, even whether we're Democrat or Republican. That's one of the underappreciated reasons why capitalism has to stay apolitical.

On Principles & Values: To put America first, we need to rediscover what America is

On Budget & Economy: Unleash the Beast and grow our way out of problems

That bureaucracy acts as the impediment to economic growth--tear it down! Unshackle ourselves! Unleash the Beast of our U.S economy! From a position of growth we're in a much better place.

On Government Reform: Raise voting age to 25 for the majority of U.S. voters

On Health Care: Gut the FDA and its corrupt regulations

Perhaps strangely given his background, he initially talked very little about the pharmaceutical industry or the FDA, but that changed last month. He said he would look to "gut" the FDA, which he referred to as being "corrupt."

"Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional. I will rescind them accordingly," he wrote. "For years I was coached by industry veterans not to speak out against FDA: if you anger FDA, they will punish you by blackballing review of your drug review applications. 'FDA never forgets' is a quietly-whispered, well-known pharma industry adage. Now I speak freely as a citizen."

On Homeland Security: We are way behind; need modern Monroe Doctrine

The reality is, we need defense capabilities of the homeland, nuclear defense capabilities, cyber defense capabilities, super EMP, electromagnetic pulse capabilities, that could take out our electric grid. We are way behind. And so the hallmark of my foreign policy is going to be you don't mess with the homeland. Start with that first.

On Immigration: Military force to secure the border; then universally deport

He wants to "universally" deport undocumented immigrants and opposes any path to legal residence because "we are a nation of laws. That is something we cannot compromise on."

He added that, for people brought to the US as children, he would be open to a process allowing them to return after being deported. But all legal immigration, he says, should run on a "meritocratic" points system, with lottery-based paths eliminated.

He said citing undocumented immigrants' economic contributions was tantamount to making economic arguments for slavery: "'The vegetables will rot in the field, we need people to pluck our crops'--[slaveowners] were saying that in the South in the 1860s," he said.

On Social Security: Let seniors work; invest Trust Fund in diversified portfolio

A: I just want to be clear at the outset about one thing: no cuts for seniors on Social Security or Medicare. We have to stand by the commitments we've already made. Then we can actually have rational conversations about quirks in Social Security today--like if you're a working senior you're actually penalized for working--we disincentivize work. This is nutty! We have more jobs available in this country than we do have people so for people who want to work, they should still be able to get their Social Security payments that they paid into, but also earn on top of that. Back when we did have a Social Security surplus--it wasn't that long ago--if we had just allowed that money to be invested in the same way that your financial advisor would--in a diversified portfolio--we would be swimming in surplus today.

On Crime: Trump should not be convicted of a process crime

RAMASWAMY: I think that our general norm in our Justice Department is, you should not convict somebody of a process crime when there was no actual underlying crime.

Q: So, you think destroying evidence is a process crime?

RAMASWAMY: I think it is, by definition, a process crime. Nobody left, right -- any legal scholar will agree with me on that statement. That is, by definition, a process crime, a crime that would not have existed but for the existence of an investigation. I absolutely think the right answer for the country is to put the grievances of the past behind us, to pardon President Trump, so that we can move forward as one nation, rather than marching to a national divorce.

On Principles & Values: For my part, I stand for the America first agenda

On Government Reform: Fire 75% of the federal work force and shutter agencies

"Mr. Ramaswamy also claimed he could make the changes unilaterally if he were to be elected president, putting forward a sweeping theory that the executive wields the power to restructure the federal government on his own and does not need to submit such proposals to Congress for approval."