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

“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

“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

“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

“Turning Point USA started before the Trump 2016 presidential campaign but exploded in size around that time”
― 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

“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%.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“There’s no reason an activity that could be run like any other free-market business—with competition to provide better service and lower prices—should be forced to operate like this. Even if we conclude that the government must subsidize poorer customers, let everyone make their healthcare purchases as individuals on the open market as they please. Then we can help pick up the tab for the very poorest among us, whether through charity or, if absolutely necessary, government.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Trump’s approach to healthcare may be the best example of the new conservative approach. In the past, the parties have had to decide whether to side with big businesses, the insurance companies, the hospitals, or the American Medical Association if they wanted to get anything done. Instead, Trump has repeatedly sided with individuals and small businesses.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Harris flip-flops as well, sometimes making it difficult to determine what her position is on a given law. She at times opposed California’s three-strikes-you’re-out (for life) laws—but then again, she wanted to jail parents if their kids skipped school. She’s not shy about coming down on people with the hammer of government.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“It is hard to imagine someone like Harris becoming a merciful president, if American citizens find themselves running afoul of overly harsh regulations. As for Biden, he’ll shift with the political winds as he always has, talking like a champion of desegregation today but opposing busing of students to integrate racially homogeneous school districts four decades ago.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“She also defended law enforcement officials who got convictions by withholding evidence or falsifying confessions. It is terrifying to think that about an eighth of the US prison population lives in a state with such a coldly bureaucratic conception of justice. (She may have had coldly careerist notions about sex back in the ’90s as well, since she notoriously slept with San Francisco assembly speaker Willie Brown, who was still married at the time, as he appointed her to a series of well-paid city positions.)”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Kamala Harris, by contrast, has brought about fewer changes in her role in the Senate. Her opposition to unreasonable bail requirements is an admirable exception—and, to her credit, she has argued in favor of laws allowing prisoners to get high school diplomas—but she was an extremely aggressive drug warrior and prosecutor during her time before that as California’s state attorney general, even allowing the state attorneys working under her to fight to keep people in prison after they were proven innocent, if they had missed filing deadlines for relevant legal forms.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“America became the land to which people from the Old World could flee to ply their trades without answering to guilds, farm land without answering to the lord of the manor, pray without permission from the government’s bishops, and talk about the affairs of the day without fearing reprisals from the king.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“The philosophy of America First means that we no longer have to look outside our shores to fuel our ambitions or make strategic decisions.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“It’s not so crazy—it just isn’t necessarily as objective an accounting of the costs as would be made in a pure free market, where you had to pay for the land where pipelines sit with your own money, defend pipelines in trouble spots with your own gun, and fight foreign dictators with your own mercenary army. If you’re willing to do all that—without violating human rights in those countries—more power to you, no pun intended.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“If the left sometimes show their hypocrisy and indifference to the masses on the energy and climate issue by doing things like flying private jets all the time or living right next to oceans they claim will rise to kill us all any minute, we should not become complacent about hypocrisy on the right, either.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“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

“Despite all the efforts to terrify us about global warming, by the way, the fact remains that the Earth’s temperature, to the extent it can even be reliably measured, has gone up only about one degree Celsius over the past hundred years, and sea levels have risen about three inches, which appears to be about the same amount they rose the previous century despite increasing industrial activity since then—and in any case, leaving people plenty of time to move a few inches farther away from the shore if necessary.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“The willingness of, for example, generations of the elite to fight those devastating wars over oil-rich regions is a perverse side effect of the mingling of private interests and public power. Just as government subsidies for pharmaceutical purchases start looking like a great idea if your family is in the pharmaceutical industry (or, like Medicare Part D architect and former senate majority leader Bill Frist, the hospital management industry), your family being in the oil business just might make you more willing, on a subconscious level, to tolerate great sacrifices (on the part of others, including taxpayers) in the name of keeping the black lifeblood of industry flowing.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“Trump sees that these issues—sound economics and a nationalist foreign policy orientation—go together for reasons much more logical than knee-jerk opposition to all interaction with foreigners. His instinctual wariness of deadbeats and moochers leads him to be skeptical of both Europe’s socialist redistributionist tendencies in economics and its post–World War II tendency to let”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“It is unconscionable that for decades we’ve expected heroes maimed by American involvement in unresolved conflicts overseas, and the families of those killed in those fights, to accept “We tried” as the best assessment of what was achieved by the fighting. Surveys now show most American soldiers think our recent wars have been unproductive. Maybe they, away from the spin machines of the Washington policy establishment, know what they’re talking about.”
― 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

“Ask yourself whether you can distinguish between the foreign policies of Hillary Clinton and the late John McCain. Both advocated toppling governments around the world. Both backed the Iraq War. Both were aghast at the election of Donald Trump, who had said for decades that wars are a terrible waste of lives and money.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“America First The MAGA Doctrine, far from urging belligerence against other nations, recommends recognizing the limitations of our knowledge of other cultures and thus refraining from trying to control them. The US government can barely run our own country, so it should be very cautious about trying to run others.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

“The MAGA Doctrine is not a threat to other nations but an invitation to deal with each other out of practical self-interest instead of ultimatums, displays of might, reckless adventures, and big crusades against small-bore enemies such as Afghan villagers or Latin American coca farmers.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future