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 20, 2026

ICE has nothing to do with immigration. ICE has nothing to do with the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary forces on our streets. ICE is about weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution itself. ICE…

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Jul 20, 2026

Medical debt shouldn't exist," he said, claiming the country's roughly $225 billion in medical debt could be erased for about $2.25 billion because it can be purchased "for a penny on the dollar.

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Jul 20, 2026

The disease? It's the system that allows corporations and billionaires and special interests like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us.

foxnews.com
Jul 20, 2026

Donald Trump is not, himself, the disease of our politics. He's just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics.

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Jul 20, 2026

This election will come down to the many versus the money.

abcnews.com
Jul 20, 2026

The reason that we’ve seen this war fought is because of the impact of AIPAC in our politics.

abcnews.com
Jul 19, 2026

It’s interesting taking political advice from a shop that exists specifically to launder old ideas and make them seem new again — and then, like, fail miserably at that.

vox.com
Jul 19, 2026

Both Mike Rogers, the Republican, and Haley Stevens, my opponent in this primary, have been on the side of the people doing the locking out.

vox.com
Jul 19, 2026

If Michiganders wanted moderate[s], why would they have elected Donald Trump twice?

vox.com
Jul 19, 2026

Kids need glasses, kids need schools, kids need functional infrastructure.

vox.com
Jul 19, 2026

My priority is money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all. That’s what I’m campaigning on.

vox.com
Jul 16, 2026

If I can prove it’s doable, then we’ve just created a pathway in the carotid artery of American politics that every politician who’s thinking about being President would do well to heed.

newyorker.com
Jul 12, 2026

I’m not going to come here and tell you what you cannot have and should not have.

newyorker.com
Jul 12, 2026

So long as our politicians continue to be bought off by Aipac, do not be surprised when we fight wars that are in their best interest to annex Lebanon, or to do genocide in Gaza.

theguardian.com
Jul 11, 2026

You can't retrain ICE. You have to abolish ICE.

foxnews.com
Jul 11, 2026

For too long our foreign policy has been handed to us by the likes of the state of Israel and AIPAC, who has made sure that both Democrats and Republicans are doing their bidding," El-Sayed said on Tuesday.

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Jul 11, 2026

Legalized bribery at its worst.

foxnews.com
Jul 11, 2026

Next week, AIPAC is set to spend at least $3,847,990 against me. Why? Because [Haley Stevens] is more committed to the future of a foreign country than keeping your tax dollars here to provide schools and healthcare for you and your kids,"…

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Jul 10, 2026

I am the greatest threat to AIPAC politics that has ever existed.

newyorker.com
Jul 10, 2026

I think he’s afraid that Michigan’s going to elect somebody he can’t control.

newyorker.com
Jul 10, 2026

We are absolutely going to release it before the primary.

foxnews.com
Jul 10, 2026

We absolutely will. Sometimes finances are complicated. I can only control what I can control, and unfortunately, when it comes to tax documents, sometimes they are really complicated to get," El-Sayed said.

foxnews.com
Jul 10, 2026

No," El-Sayed replied. "Taxes get complicated.

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Jul 8, 2026

When it comes to the choice between working people and corporations, I will pick working people every time.

huffpost.com
Jul 8, 2026

There's a reason that the UAW has endorsed me in this race.

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