Charlie Kirk > Quotes

“Never give up, never surrender, and always go for the win.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Greatness, on the other hand, requires the liberty and the drive to make the most of yourself.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Only in America could a President achieve the lowest ever black and Hispanic unemployment, have black business startups skyrocket 400%, see wages go up for black workers, advocate for prison reform, pardon wrongfully convicted people of color, and still be called a racist”
― Charlie Kirk, Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters

“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?”
― Charlie Kirk

“Socialism cannot survive when people are free to think for themselves, and America will never be a socialist country.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy I prefer more than empathy.”
― Charlie Kirk

“I am writing this book as a young man who quite deliberately has chosen to commit my still early life to fighting to restore, perhaps finish building, an America that was envisioned by our Founding Fathers.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“I think it’s worth it to have a cost; unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year. So that we can have our Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights.”
― Charlie Kirk

“Language control and political correctness have become the modern-day crossbow for Team Left and they are wielding their weaponry without conscience.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that—it does a lot of damage. But it is very effective when it comes to politics. When Bill Clinton said, 'I feel your pain,' that was a brilliant political move. It was total nonsense, but it worked. I prefer sympathy. Sympathy is a much better word. Sympathy is saying, 'I’m sorry for what you’re going through, I’m going to try to help you.' Empathy is like, 'I’m going to become you, I’m going to feel exactly what you’re feeling.' It’s impossible, it’s narcissistic, and it’s destructive.”
― Charlie Kirk

“Somebody said President Obama is much more popular in Germany than President Trump—he should be,” added Trump in his TPUSA speech. “If I start getting higher poll numbers in Europe, I’m doing something wrong.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Protecting individual liberty from the tyrannical forces of government is the idea our nation was built upon. It is the only way to protect the individual’s rights, the family, local churches and schools, and other groups who can’t fight back themselves. Be skeptical of everything, especially your government. Ask questions, fight for your rights, and never surrender.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Be skeptical of everything”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“you are trying to shut them up because you disagree with them, then you are an intellectual midget.”
― Charlie Kirk, Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters

“Lack of sleep doesn't just make us tired; it makes us irrational, moody, and emotionally erratic (...) Chronic sleep deprivation may not only fuel anxiety and depression, but also impair our ability to manage relationships, make wise decisions, or maintain emotional balance.”
― Charlie Kirk, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life

“That viciousness—the sense of a revolution as a sort of purifying fire—is a zeal rarely seen in US history or British history, unless one counts the current fervor of the left’s so-called social justice warriors, who do sometimes beat, egg, or Molotov-cocktail their political enemies, though for now they more often just strive to purge their enemies from social media platforms and campus speaking engagements.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Never give up. Never surrender. Always go for the win.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“You will never live in a society, when you have an armed citizenry, and you won't have a single gun death. That's nonsense, it's drivel. But I -I -I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have 2nd amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
― Charlie Kirk

“I can't stand empathy. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.”
― Charlie Kirk

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term, and it does a lot of damage. I much prefer the word compassion, and I much prefer the word sympathy. Empathy is where you try to feel someone’s pain and sorrows as if they’re your own. Compassion allows for understanding. I prefer the word sympathy, because politics has weaponized empathy.”
― Charlie Kirk

“Donald Trump has always been a builder, from hotels to casinos to golf courses—Barack Obama was a community organizer who gave impressive speeches. However, one of the least eloquent points that President Obama made during a speech was his infamous line “You didn’t build that.” It’s no surprise that President Trump understands that businesses and growth are good for the economy and create jobs, while President Obama focused on the government as the solution.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“I can’t help thinking of the famous words shouted by General La Rochejaquelein fighting against the first French Revolution: “Friends, if I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“While the relatively sedate revolutions going on in the United States and, a century earlier, England itself took their inspiration from individualist philosophers such as John Locke (and coincided with the rise of free-market economics as espoused by thinkers such as Scotland’s Adam Smith), the more sweeping and bloody French Revolution took some of its inspiration from a different strain of the Enlightenment intellectual era: the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“If old Democrat was something like civil liberties/welfare/internationalism and new Democrat is something like censorship/socialism/internationalism, while old Republican was something like theocratic/corporate/warlike, then the new Republican formula is roughly free speech/entrepreneurial/pro-peace. Not all change is good, but this is.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Consider what happens when America’s one large experimental socialist zone, the state of California, goes its own way: California has 12% of America’s population Yet they have 50% of America’s homeless population And who has run and represented California for decades? People like: Nancy Pelosi Dianne Feinstein Maxine Waters Kamala Harris Eric Swalwell Gavin Newsom Democrats in the Obama era didn’t do much to spur economic growth but prided themselves on an endless variety of redistributive mechanisms.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Obamacare wasn’t a tax when it needed to avoid being a tax, then it was a tax when it needed to be one to survive a constitutional challenge. Voila, socialized medicine in America takes another stealthy leap forward. But then Trump managed to undo that sometimes-a-tax-sometimes-not-a-tax, in an underappreciated detail of his 2017 tax reform bill. The bill didn’t formally repeal Obamacare. It just lowered the penalty for failing to buy mandated health insurance to $0. I can think of a lot more laws that would benefit from a penalty that size.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Sanders postures as a kind of secular Moses---a socialist liberator who would set all students free from the bondage to soul-crushing debt. Well, Bernie Sanders may have been around since Moses, but students need to know he's no liberator.”
― Charlie Kirk, The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth

“The answer, as with domestic government boondoggles, is not to pour more money in and “this time get it right.” The answer is to stay out of these quagmires in the first place.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Our liberty is once again under attack, only this time from an insidious infestation of people who want us to lay down our liberty at the feet of some ill-defined, always corrosive, “greater good.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“The Obamas don’t seem too worried about the problem now that they’re out of the White House and in mid-2019 bought a $15 million mansion right on the edge of a very flat stretch of Martha’s Vineyard beachfront.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future