The MAGA Doctrine 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“My parents said, among other things, that they were Christians and grateful Americans, and to the extent the Republicans captured those basic orientations, they felt a kinship to the Republican Party and would reward it with at least provisional loyalty.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“I have a sixth-grade social studies teacher to thank—though not in the way one usually thanks teachers and other mentors. Deviating from the usual civics lessons around the time of the Iraq War’s start, this teacher railed against then-president George W. Bush. I would come eventually to see the war in Iraq as a mistake myself and to see the Trump-era Republican Party as an improvement over the Republican Party of the Bushes.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“The global elite needed America humbled. They loved Obama’s so-called apology tour, his low-key bowing to world leaders, however well-intentioned and polite. It was one sign among many that America was finally learning to stop thinking of itself as special. It was a sign America was falling in line.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“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

“but no matter. Numerous Democrats, including more than one 2020 presidential candidate, promptly called for Kavanaugh to be impeached! Democrats love impeachment now, but needless to say, they didn’t back in Bill Clinton’s day.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“rumored to be on deck as a nominee if Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away, ghoulish as it may be to speculate—is Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Her 2017 confirmation hearings were a revealing look at how radical the litmus tests used by the Democrats are becoming. Barrett was essentially raked over the coals, in particular by longtime California senator Dianne Feinstein, for being Catholic, and for using the term “orthodox Catholic” to describe herself, as though over seventy million Americans, the single largest religious denomination in the United States, were some fringe group. The real imperative in the minds of Democrat interlocutors in such hearings is “Protect abortion at any cost,” as if the whole of judicial philosophy and politics revolves around the odds that someone might push back against the post–Roe v. Wade legal regime.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“That doesn’t mean, though, that every conservative takes a strictly libertarian view of the constraints the Constitution imposes on the federal government, either. To a conservative such as Judge Robert Bork, whose own nomination to the Supreme Court was derailed by paranoid leftist criticisms in 1987 (a foretaste of the sort of opposition Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh would face in 2018), progressive policy goals may not deserve special judicial deference, but the will of the popular majority does.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“CNBC notes that an empirical analysis by Adam Feldman, creator of the site Empirical SCOTUS, finds that no two justices appointed by the same president have disagreed with each other more than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh since JFK was president.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Seeing even the two new Trump-appointed conservative justices, whom the left paints as authoritarians, stick up for the accused against the grasping hands of the law is a reminder that Trump, though sympathetic to police, is not just appointing authoritarian “law-and-order” judges. Rather, he’s appointing ones who respect both law and its proper limitations, the state and its bounds.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“But both Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. seemed to have the right attitude toward the Fifth even before the Mueller investigation fizzled and devolved into the sad spectacle of a distracted and exhausted-looking Robert Mueller testifying to a Senate committee that he really had nothing more to add to or say about his inconclusive report, the one that so many Democrats had for months assumed would show Trump being manipulated by the Russians. He must have done something criminal, they “reasoned,” since he’s just so . . . insufferable! But long before things reached that point, Donald Trump Jr. had said he wouldn’t plead the Fifth if called upon to testify even if it spared him an endless and pointless legal morass, since pleading the Fifth might give the wrong impression. And he got that view of the matter from his dad, who had said repeatedly in the past that he thought it odd for innocent people to resort to pleading the Fifth. “The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” as Trump Sr. once put it.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“So it is encouraging, though the issue has by no means been resolved, that as I write these words in the summer of 2019, Trump’s outgoing director of national security, Dan Coats, acknowledged in a letter to Congress the suspension of the NSA’s collection of call detail records but carefully specified the case for renewing the roving wire tape authority (as guided by FISA courts) and for treating “lone wolf” terrorist suspects as fitting targets for tracking even if they are guided by a foreign terror ideology without officially being members of a foreign terrorist organization.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Rural America knows most gun owners are harmless defenders of property, range shooters, or hunters, while urban America, still getting over its nightmares from the sky-high rates of gang violence thirty years ago, thinks guns spontaneously spark violent chaos if left unregulated for more than a few seconds. Urban dwellers have a very hard time imagining a gun in the hand of anyone other than a cop or a criminal—which means they feel very comfortable imagining the rest of us disarmed.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Meanwhile, TV journalist Chris Cuomo effectively threatens CNN viewers and his Twitter followers, telling them CNN has the right to view documents (such as those leaked to WikiLeaks) that the public does not and that “hate speech” is not protected by the First Amendment, which would be a big surprise to some sharp-tongued Founding Fathers and their political opponents.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Well before critics started complaining that in Trump we have a conspiracy theorist for a president, former CIA and National Security Agency staffer Edward Snowden woke the world up to the domestic snooping potential such agencies have, how massive databanks are already warehousing metadata, at the very least, about all our online communications and phone calls. That was a big enough blow to public trust.”
― 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

“Trump reversed that, revealing what young conservatives already knew: The future of the Democrat Party is whiners and killjoys. The future of the Republican Party is winners.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“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

“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

“but with the benefit of historical hindsight, America’s 1776 and France’s 1789 look in some ways like opposites. America’s revolution was not so much a break with all prior history as an affirmation of the best lessons learned from that history—and explicitly from British history, even as our country declared its independence from Britain. The English legal tradition was rooted in the rights of the individual and limits on the power of the state and sovereign.”
― 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

“An optimistic America—not a shamed America, nor a hateful and arrogant America—is one of the greatest blessings the world can know. As Trump put it in that same speech, sticking up for America against its enemies and against radically anti-American political ideas isn’t a case of wanting a bully to overcome the weak: “It’s right overcoming wrong.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future