Best Charlie Kirk Quotes from His Most Viral Debates

11. "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

12. "Colleges do not educate anymore." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam: How America's Universities are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth

13. "Higher education has become a scam." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam Book

14. "Anything but college." — Charlie Kirk, Fox News Interview about The College Scam

15. "Universities have become islands of totalitarianism." — Charlie Kirk, Various Speeches

16. "We need to get on the college campuses, to get in the classrooms and challenge the ideals that are crumbling our democracy." — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA Promotional Video

17. "How often do conservatives harass liberals as they try to recruit students to their causes? Not often, if ever." — Charlie Kirk, Campus Battlefield Book

18. "If you think you need the piece of paper and all the debt alongside of it to get the job, so be it. But I believe that there is a massive sea change." — Charlie Kirk, Fox News Interview

19. "Maybe go to a community college or a tech school, take a gap year, go find a business owner that is in the profession that you might have an interest in and ask for a job." — Charlie Kirk, Fox News Interview

20. "I visit college campuses so you don't have to." — Charlie Kirk, 2024 Republican National Convention

21. "When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity." — Charlie Kirk, Viral Video Clip

22. "I think that free speech is the last best hope we have in Western society." — Charlie Kirk, San Diego State University Debate

23. "What we have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option." — Charlie Kirk, Various Interviews

24. "You should be allowed to say outrageous things." — Charlie Kirk, Oxford University Debate

25. "I want to see where I might be wrong, strengthen my arguments, and anybody can say anything to me." — Charlie Kirk, Campus Debates

26. "We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide." — Charlie Kirk, Interview about Campus Tours

27. "Prove me wrong." — Charlie Kirk, Signature Challenge at Campus Events

28. "I'm trying to be proactive about fostering dialogue between individuals with differing views." — Charlie Kirk, Interview Invitation

29. "There is no separation of church and state. It's a fabrication, it's a fiction, it's not in the constitution." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, July 6, 2022

30. "An open society where we can engage in debates and disagreements publicly, rather than hiding behind bulletproof vests and glass." — Charlie Kirk, Commentary on Free Speech

31. "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Event, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

32. "The Second Amendment is not about hunting. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Event, 2023

33. "Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Event, 2023

34. "You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel." — Charlie Kirk, Salt Lake City Speech, 2023

35. "There is no First Amendment without a Second Amendment, make no mistake. You can't pick and choose your freedoms." — Charlie Kirk, NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, 2018

36. "If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?" — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Event, 2023

37. "How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows... Because everyone's armed." — Charlie Kirk, Gun Rights Speech, 2023

38. "Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel 'safe' by taking freedoms away from others. Don't fall for it." — Charlie Kirk, Social Media Post

39. "The Second Amendment is a God-given right to self-defense for every American – it's non-negotiable." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Rallies

40. "When you have law-abiding citizens with firearms, it deters bad people. It's that simple." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show

41. "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." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, October 12, 2022

42. "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, January 23, 2024

43. "Capitalism is not a system that guarantees equal outcomes, but it is a system that guarantees equal opportunity." — Charlie Kirk, Political Commentary

44. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA Conference, December 2023

45. "The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, March 20, 2024

46. "America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, April 30, 2025

47. "The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, March 1, 2024

48. "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, April 1, 2024

49. "Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, discussing Taylor Swift, August 26, 2025

50. "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised." — Charlie Kirk, Public Commentary

51. "You guys are the beginning portion of the greatest political comeback in American history." — Charlie Kirk, Political Rally

52. "America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever." — Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, August 22, 2025

53. "For the past four years, they've seen the vision of the Biden Harris regime. That vision is you'll own nothing and be happy." — Charlie Kirk, 2024 Republican National Convention

54. "Their vision is this. Limit your dreams. Give up. Aim lower. Be content with less." — Charlie Kirk, 2024 Republican National Convention

55. "This country that split the atom and invented the steam engine and eradicated slavery and brought common law to the world can do a lot better than this." — Charlie Kirk, Oxford University Speech

56. "Our founders did not establish this nation and shed their blood to see it become the world's greatest debtor nation." — Charlie Kirk, Political Commentary

57. "It is the responsibility of every American to stand up and defend our constitutional rights." — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA Events

58. "We plan to win. And for the three conservatives that are here tonight, I hope you guys get your mojo back." — Charlie Kirk, Cambridge Union Debate

59. "This was once a great country. I want to see it great again." — Charlie Kirk, Cambridge Union Speech

60. "No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie." — Donald Trump, commenting on Charlie Kirk's influence

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