Political Quotes

Dana Nessel

The Public Record

Quotes by year · 2020202694 total · peak 2020 (28)
2020: 28 quotes2021: 22 quotes2022: 22 quotes2023: 2 quotes2025: 5 quotes2026: 15 quotes

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  1. I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying.2 sources2026michiganadvance.com
  2. This cannot continue, and the fact of the matter is, we have to be able to be a society where we can have intelligent discourse and debate about ideas without people being threatened, and certainly without people carrying out those threats.2 sources2026michiganadvance.com
Aug 17, 2026

After six so-called emergency orders, it is clear that DOE intends to stretch Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to force an aging, obsolete plant to operate indefinitely.

michiganadvance.com
Aug 16, 2026

Make no mistake, my office stands ready to hold accountable those who attempt to unlawfully interfere with or intimidate Michigan election workers.

huffpost.com
Aug 14, 2026

In my office, we’ve always taken election crimes seriously, and prosecute attacks on our voting systems to the fullest extent of the law.

michiganadvance.com
Aug 10, 2026

Despite the enormity of this project, DTE’s application omitted or glossed over several categories of investment costs, declined to provide modelling as normally used to evaluate large investment proposals, and presented extensively…

michiganadvance.com
Aug 7, 2026

The Michigan Consumer Protection Act was once the envy of consumer protection efforts across the nation, and today we can once again claim that mantle with these two abhorrent decisions off the books.

michiganadvance.com
Aug 7, 2026

The law even provides parameters for federal and congressional poll monitors. We encourage everyone to participate and see for themselves how secure and fair our elections are – but make no mistake, my office stands ready to hold…

talkingpointsmemo.com
Aug 3, 2026

I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it’s been happening to me.

washingtonexaminer.com
Jul 30, 2026

This cannot continue, and the fact of the matter is, we have to be able to be a society where we can have intelligent discourse and debate about ideas without people being threatened, and certainly without people carrying out those threats.

michiganadvance.com
Jul 30, 2026

I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying.

michiganadvance.com
Jul 8, 2026

We encourage everyone to participate and see for themselves how secure and fair our elections are — but make no mistake, my office stands ready to hold accountable those who attempt to unlawfully interfere with or intimidate Michigan…

talkingpointsmemo.com
Jun 24, 2026

The ICE warehouse proposal was every bit as ill-conceived as it was cruel and unnecessary, and I am relieved that this chapter is coming to a close.

abcnews.com
Jun 18, 2026

Romulus simply was not – and never would be – the appropriate place for a large-scale detention center.

michiganadvance.com
Jun 16, 2026

non-profits and 501(c)4 organizations are meant to support the public welfare and wellbeing, they’re not a personal slush fund for the politically connected.

michiganadvance.com
Jun 11, 2026

This wasn't an abstract or peaceful kidnapping case. The evidence presented at trial explicitly proved a considered and coordinated plan among these men to kidnap and brutally murder the Governor, killing as many members of law enforcement…

cbsnews.com
Aug 8, 2025

Americans should know and understand how deeply compromised our federal law enforcement agencies are.

commondreams.org
May 12, 2025

By clawing back this already-allocated funding, Donald Trump's White House is prioritizing political posturing over the safety and well-being of Americans.

cbsnews.com
Feb 12, 2025

He is an unelected billionaire, who is acting really like a king.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 12, 2025

We've never had a special employee of the president behave as basically a super cabinet secretary who has authority over every single agency in federal government.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 12, 2025

No cabinet secretary or director has the ability to just wholesale eliminate a congressionally created agency. It was created through an act of Congress. It can only be eliminated through an act of Congress.

transcripts.cnn.com
Aug 2, 2023

The most political thing that Jack Smith could possibly do in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt would be not to charge Donald Trump at all.

transcripts.cnn.com
Aug 2, 2023

Firstly, very clearly, this is a coordinated campaign that started at the top, you know, started with the former president of the United States, and then went into all of these other states.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jun 19, 2022

I don’t see how the DOJ can do anything but take action. It’s -- the evidence is overwhelming.

msnbc.com
Jun 19, 2022

I don`t see how the DOJ can do anything but take action. It`s -- the evidence is overwhelming.

msnbc.com
Jun 19, 2022

There was this effort to completely undermine the election and subvert the vote utilizing this -- this -- what seems like a harebrained scheme using the false slate of electors that actually almost worked.

msnbc.com

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