From the Archive: Charlie’s 2025 CLS Speech

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
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All right, everybody, we are having fun here at the Chapter Leadership Summit.
This is a high-energy group. I love it. I had a group. We had this wonderful breakfast before. Who was at the breakfast? A couple people here. And I could talk about politics the whole time. Instead, I'm going to talk about something much more important, which is data. Well, that's true. We'll talk about Jesus too. But I'm going to talk about we're going to talk about dating, marriage and kind of the state of all of that. You got that's more important than talking about. We can talk about politics the next couple of days, right? And so I'm going to have a very direct message for men and then a very direct message for women. So I'll offend everybody in the room and then we'll do questions. How does that sound?
All right. But first, I want to say, you guys on the front lines, starting Turning Point USA high school chapters, starting Turning Point USA college chapters, you are on the front lines of saving this country. And you look around, our numbers are increasing. We are happier. We are joyful. We love the nation and we're going to defeat the left. It's just a matter of time. We're going to win this country. We're going to win.
And the energy in here is incredible. So I was sitting at breakfast this morning and I would go to table by table and I'd say, how many of you are unhappy with the dating pool? Raise your hand if you're unhappy with the dating pool. Every almost every. Those of you not raising your hand, how many of you are in relationships? Almost every hand goes up, right? So I went to table by table and people were saying similar things. They said, you know, I just can't find a woman. I just can't find a man that all people really care about is hook up culture. All people really care about is immediate gratification. And so I thought to myself, there needs to be a message delivered here at the Chapter Leadership Summit to men of what men need to do and to women what women need to do because the problem is on both sides. And I'm not going to say one side more than the other, even though I have some personal opinions on that, but you'll try to be able to guess. But more importantly, though, if we do not value the most important things, it should be God should be the most important thing in your life. Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, most important thing. And, but then beyond that, it's getting married, having children, building families, leaving a legacy, doing big and great things. And that goes for everybody in this room. Right now, our generation, well, I'm a little bit older than you, but kind of in the younger demo, we are the most suicidal generation in history, the most anxious generation in history, the most medicated generation in history. And there's something seriously wrong where we are the least married generation. And also, we are less likely to have babies than any other generation prior to us. We have more, we have more comforts, we have more cell phones, we have more things at our disposal, and yet we are having less children and we are literally not repopulating the species. So there's a lot of things going on here. And first and foremost is we do not value the ultimate thing. And that the ultimate thing should be loving God, loving people, and raising children in a society that follows God's commands against the culture, not in consistency with the culture, to stand on my opinion on eternal truths, fight for the country, fight for our civilization, and then also understand that you, especially as men, but women as well, you are obligated to do difficult and hard things. The West was built, our nation was built, on delayed gratification, not instant gratification, that maybe I'm not going to go do what feels good in the moment, I'm going to forsake what feels good, and I'm going to parlay that into the future. Now, let's talk about this. So, the dating pool is a complete catastrophe. Men are unhappy with women, women are unhappy with men. And you're both wrong. Let's start with men. Men, very simple. If you are spending inordinate amount of times staring at screens, playing video games, and not being active and productive, that is deeply unattractive to women. Women, do you agree?