50 Charlie Kirk Quotes: Understanding His Political Views

“The premise of the book is that, you know, regardless of your walk of life, if you are a parent or a grandparent or a student, there must be an agreed upon consensus that higher education has become a scam.” — Charlie Kirk, Fox News Interview about The College Scam

“Anything but college. 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, go ask for an unpaid internship.” — Charlie Kirk, Fox News Interview about The College Scam

“I believe they are defrauding. I don't think that they're making young people stronger in their desire to pursue truth, to develop reason, understanding of the Western canon.” — Charlie Kirk, Cross Examined interview on The College Scam

“Colleges do not educate anymore.” — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam and Fox News coverage of it

8. "College ruins the ability to think and reason." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam

9. "College indoctrinates students and represses speech." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam

10. "Colleges and universities breed violence and hate." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam

11. "Many professors are leftists radicals bent on indoctrinating students." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam

12. "We all know that colleges are filled with far-left professors, but the truth is much worse. Anti-American ideals are thriving, progressives repress speech, and brainwashing is the norm." — Charlie Kirk, The College Scam book description

13. "Students are not opposed to our ideas inherently is that they're not exposed to them at all in the first place." — Charlie Kirk, CPAC 2019 Speechyoutube

14. "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." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

15. "Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

16. "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 Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

17. "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, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

18. "That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

19. "If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children [have armed guards]?" — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

20. "How do you stop school shootings? How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games." — Charlie Kirk, TPUSA Faith Freedom Night, Salt Lake City, April 5, 2023

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

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

23. "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

24. "Go back to your home and go make Mexico great again." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

25. "That's not my problem. Isn't that the point of America? To sell the American dream. What is the point of America? Is the point to bring in a bunch of foreigners or is the point to protect our own citizens?" — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

26. "If you come into the country uninvited, you have committed a crime and you are a criminal." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

27. "It is an insult to other immigrants from Vietnam and Laos and Pakistan that have to wait decades in line to morally equivalate people that come in and just break in." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

28. "If we compromise on immigration law, we do not HAVE immigration law. You must we must be uncompromising in the enforcement of law." — Charlie Kirk, Instagram post

29. "Illegal people coming in the country are then we have every right to repel them and to send them back to their country of origin." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate

30. "Our government does not exist to improve the life of foreign citizens." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

31. "We are in chaos right now. We have the most depressed, suicidal, anxious generation history. Our birth rate is collapsing. Kids can't afford homes." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate on immigration

32. "Mass deportation will positively affect the US economy. You guys will have less people to compete for housing prices." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate

33. "If your First Act into a country is to break a country's laws of which illegal immigration is... we have every right to repel them." — Charlie Kirk, campus debate

34. "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, The Charlie Kirk Show, October 12, 2022

35. "We do not have different ways of getting to the same place. We have two different places that we want to get to." — Charlie Kirk, CPAC 2019 Speech

36. "If you want to fundamentally transform and destroy this country from within, you do not mean well. You do not have good intentions whatsoever." — Charlie Kirk, CPAC 2019 Speech

37. "There's a culture war brewing right now. And it's a culture war different. It's one fundamental question. What is America? Is America a place for victims or for victors?" — Charlie Kirk, CPAC 2019 Speech

38. "When people stop communicating, that's when violence erupts. That's when civil war occurs, because you begin to view the opposing side as entirely evil and lose sight of their humanity." — Charlie Kirk, campus event video

39. "What we have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option." — Charlie Kirk, campus event video

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

41. "If you actually believe that climate change is an existential threat which is complete gibberish nonsense and balderdash." — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point UK, December 2024

42. "Islam is not compatible with the West." — Charlie Kirk, podcast episode, May 2025

43. "It's not Islamophobia to notice that Muslims want to import values into the West that seek to destabilize our civilization." — Charlie Kirk, X/Twitter post

Quotes are starting points: they sharpen perspective, fuel conviction, and spark debate. But their power grows when connected to deeper ideas. As Charlie Kirk insists, “Never give up, never surrender, and always go for the win,” his worldview invites you to question institutions, defend freedoms, and reimagine America’s future.

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