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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

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

“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

“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

“Never give up. Never surrender. Always go for the win.”
― 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

“His idea of fun is celebrating the American flag. Sounds good to me. If that’s his idea of mischief, let him be mischievous. It sure beats burning the flag.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Obama thinks apology is statesmanship, and Bush thinks looking for criminals to fight is. Trump admires strength and tough talk to a degree Obama probably considers uncouth, but he does not believe in using it as indiscriminately as the Bush clan traditionally has. Trump, unlike virtually every political figure in Washington, is goal-oriented.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“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

“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

“France, at first glance, appeared at once more optimistic and far more pessimistic. The French revolutionaries could not just announce to the world, as America effectively did, that it was a commercial republic separated by an ocean from its former monarch. Monarchy and aristocracy were deeply rooted in every aspect of French society and would not easily be removed. The French revolutionaries, who should perhaps have compromised and remained, as France had briefly been, a constitutional monarchy, decided to tear out the old regime root and branch. Monarchs, aristocrats, their sympathizers, anyone suspected of sympathizing with them, and, in time, any among the revolutionaries who too loudly questioned the direction of the revolution, could be sentenced to death by guillotine.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“We have been tirelessly fighting against the well-oiled machinery of “Team Left” and we have been taking them on aggressively at every turn. We fight them with their own tactics and we fight them with new ones they haven’t before seen. Mostly what we are trying to do is to move away from the apologies and counterpunches commonly associated with Team Right and hit preemptively and hit hard.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“No foreign nation has found a greater friend in President Trump than Israel. That nation is a tiny miracle, surrounded by hostile, often theocratic Muslim nations. It is the one real democracy in a sea of totalitarianism and archaic monarchies. Israel has flourished spectacularly, its economic growth and contributions to the world unmatched by the other nations of the Middle East. It has virtually no oil, unlike its neighbors, and has been able to defeat countless attacks, repeated intifada attack campaigns, and even all-out wars. It is a nation just a bit like Donald Trump: always surrounded by hostile neighbors, yet always moving ahead and winning.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“offer these stats (some of the many such facts I like to share on my Twitter feed and podcast): Two hundred years ago, 84% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, 90% don’t. 83% didn’t have a basic education. Today, 86% do. 1% lived in a democracy. Today just 44% don’t. The child mortality rate was 43%. Today, it’s 4%. All thanks to the free market socialists want to destroy. If anything, economic growth rates and progress have slowed in the past few decades as the welfare state, to which the socialists give all the credit for such advances, grew. The new socialists and Democrats steadfastly ignore these facts. And it is this delusion that makes the MAGA Doctrine more important than ever.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future