From the Archive: Charlie's Q&A at Texas Tech

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk.

**Charlie Kirk** (0:05)
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, 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.

**Charlie Kirk** (0:49)
Here we go.

**Charlie Kirk** (0:56)
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Okay, so you could start lining up for questions. Let me tell you how questions are going to work. This is obviously a predominant conservative audience. If you disagree, you get to go to the front of the line. Now if somebody who is a liberal comes up and asks a question, do not boo them, do not make fun of them, do not make noise, show any liberals or people that have different ideas, the respect that we as conservatives never get from the left, okay? That's what we're going to do here tonight.
And so you could start lining up here if you have questions. And again, disagreements get precedent. And please try to remain as quiet as you can.
I'll let you get it out of your system. I tell you, if you guys start throwing tortillas at me, I'm going to throw them at you. You didn't bring any? All right. Yes, ma'am, you are first.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:16)
As someone who's been doing these college tours for, I think you said 11 years, how do you prioritize spending time with your wife and your children?

**Charlie Kirk** (2:25)
That's a great question. Yeah, I have to, you have to learn to say no.
And this should tell you how important it is for me to be here tonight, because I say no to like 99% of the speaking events and engagements I get asked to go to. And so, and yeah, I mean, one of the life preservation tools that the Lord gives us is he tells us in the Ten Commandments, for six days you shall work and for one day you shall rest.
And so people ask if I'm Seventh Day Adventist, I'm not. But I do honor the Shabbat. I turn off my phone on Friday night. I turn it back on Sunday morning. It works for me. And I believe one of the great failures of modern Christianity is our failure to honor the Sabbath, whether we like it or not. There is way too much work that occurs. And again, your Sabbath can be Sunday, it can be Saturday. I'm not a legalist on that. I do Saturday because it works for my schedule. I'm less likely to have to do work on Saturday. It's a good end of the week. That's fine. If it's Sunday is your day. However, most Christians that I encounter, I ask them this question. If I walked into your house on Saturday or Sunday, would I be able to tell which day is the Sabbath?
And if the answer is no, then it's not actually the Sabbath.
If you walk into my house on the Sabbath, my phone is off and my electronic devices are off. The only exceptions I make are for things that I truly enjoy, like college football or college basketball, because that's not work. For six days, you shall work for one day, you shall rest. So it's nourishing to me, right? And but anything that involves work, I don't read a newspaper, I don't visit a news website, I don't listen to a radio program. And so that's my only challenge to you is that your Sabbath, that if somebody walked into the day that you designate as your Sabbath, they should be able to see something different. In Hebrew, the word holy, so to keep the Sabbath holies repeated over 10 times in the Old Testament. To keep holy means separate, it means distinct, it means different then. And so to keep it holy means that that day must look, feel, and act different than any other day of the week. So whatever that means for you, make it happen. Do something that you enjoy, that is restful, and most importantly, spend time with your family and do something that honors your Creator. Thank you.