Political Quotes

Abdul El-Sayed

The Public Record

For the 2026 election, El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Jul 31, 2026

What are we actually for? Are we just the permanent opposition party where ‘We’re not them’?

theatlantic.com
Jul 31, 2026

You say you want to give people health care but take money from the people who are keeping us from having health care.

theatlantic.com
Jul 31, 2026

You say you’re for human rights and can’t name a genocide a genocide.

theatlantic.com
Jul 31, 2026

And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.

theatlantic.com
Jul 31, 2026

Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day.

theatlantic.com
Jul 29, 2026

I have been showing up for Detroit since I first stepped into the city as its health director back in 2015, and I intend to show up for Detroit every single day when I walk into the Capitol as your next U.S. Senator.

thebulwark.com
Jul 29, 2026

Congresswoman, if you enjoy podcasts about public health, I welcome you to take a listen. You seem very concerned about that.

foxnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

So yeah, I’m going to take the bullhorn and I’m going to say that I think we need to abolish ICE because I am not afraid of what they’re going to say about me.

foxnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

I go on Fox News, I go on podcasts, I Twitch stream, we have a YouTube channel.

abcnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

I think in a lot of ways, where traditional media has been gatekeepers, we’re watching that gatekeeping function fall away.

abcnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

My mother was the first tenured professor of engineering at her university. I was raised by strong women. To say that somehow, because I wrote an op-ed 15 years ago about what first lady Michelle Obama said, or I ran against Governor…

cbsnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

Every single dollar that DTE is spending is a down payment on knowing they can raise your rates.

michiganadvance.com
Jul 28, 2026

Here’s the thing about it: None of it actually makes your life better.

michiganadvance.com
Jul 28, 2026

The difference between us is $46 million of AIPAC spending.

huffpost.com
Jul 28, 2026

Every time you want to put glasses on kids, people ask you: ‘Doctor, how are you going to pay for that?’ Nobody asks the general how he’s going to pay for the next war.

theguardian.com
Jul 28, 2026

I’m not a socialist. I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works. The biggest threat to capitalism was never the idea of government regulation. It was always monopoly.

theguardian.com
Jul 28, 2026

Look, I took to Twitter last week and said that the tone in which people talk about my opponent is unkind, and I asked anybody who supported me to not talk about her that way.

theguardian.com
Jul 28, 2026

I’ve said that we need to abolish ICE.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

Right now, the biggest risks to our democracy are the filibuster — it’s anti-democratic in the Senate — and money in politics.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

I oppose the filibuster. I think the filibuster has been anti-democratic for a lot of reasons.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

I was raised by strong women.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

Ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

I was referring to a guy named John Fetterman.

foxnews.com
Jul 28, 2026

Do not make fun of her. It's unkind.

cbsnews.com

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