Political Quotes

Abdul El-Sayed

The Public Record

Aug 24, 2026

Even before this new round, Canadian tariffs were costing Michigan families an additional $3,200 a year. It’s going to get much worse.

nationalpost.com
Aug 24, 2026

So if you don’t want to talk about what you’re doing, that’s fine, but I encourage you to leave my name and my background out of it.

huffpost.com
Aug 24, 2026

This is about trying to change the channel.

huffpost.com
Aug 23, 2026

We can put money back in pockets and finally guarantee the promise of health care through Medicare for all.

theatlantic.com
Aug 21, 2026

He’s going to hide behind this simulacrum of faith, which clearly, you know, if you followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, it was about upending the system against the richest and most powerful in the ways that they used their power and…

foxnews.com
Aug 20, 2026

Democracy is supposed to fix these problems, and, right now, they’re trying to slip democracy, and we cannot allow that.

foxnews.com
Aug 20, 2026

I want to actually take it a step further. I agree that we need public ownership, but I also agree that we need some system of public control. What is the point of democracy if it's not to protect us from existential risk? And, right now…

foxnews.com
Aug 17, 2026

People really effing hate data centers.

newyorker.com
Aug 14, 2026

We have to send the same message we did after 9/11: If you attack our democracy, we will hold you accountable.

foxnews.com
Aug 14, 2026

This is just a different time, and this time calls for different kinds of candidates,” El-Sayed told me. “I hope that coming out of this election, the question of electability is no longer asked and interpreted in the same way.

theatlantic.com
Aug 14, 2026

You know what people hate more than Trump? Politics as usual. They hate politics as usual so much that they were willing to take Trump, warts and all,” El-Sayed told me. “So what happens if you offer them something that’s not politics as…

theatlantic.com
Aug 14, 2026

“If you can’t get elected without $60 million being spent for you, you can’t get elected. I’m so sorry,” El-Sayed said.

theatlantic.com