Political Quotes

Bakari Sellers

The Public Record

Bakari Sellers is a prominent Democratic political figure and commentator from South Carolina. He gained national recognition as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served from 2006 to 2014. Sellers has been an advocate for social justice, education reform, and healthcare access, often speaking on issues affecting the African American community. After leaving office, he has continued to influence public discourse through his work as a political analyst and author.

Quotes by year · 20152025381 total · peak 2017 (106)
2015: 3 quotes2016: 62 quotes2017: 106 quotes2018: 48 quotes2019: 39 quotes2020: 32 quotes2021: 31 quotes2022: 16 quotes2023: 16 quotes2024: 26 quotes2025: 2 quotes
Jan 18, 2024

At the end of the day, it's going to come down to the fact that Donald Trump is going to beat himself.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 13, 2024

If there's any hope in the Republican primary to stop Trump, I think that ship has sailed, but if there's any hope there can't be three tickets out of Iowa, there can really only be two.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 7, 2024

President Biden speaking to Black voters in South Carolina today once again hitting on this message that his predecessor is a threat to democracy, comparing his supporters to defeated Confederates embracing the lost cause.

transcripts.cnn.com
Dec 27, 2023

Nikki Haley takes credit for that, but in order to take credit for that, then in the other breath say she does not necessarily understand this was a mistake, because we know that in 2010 when she was running for governor, she said the same…

transcripts.cnn.com
Dec 27, 2023

So, first, I'm not surprised by the answer last night. Second, I love Jonah but let me just hassle articulate, that in South Carolina, we're not necessarily intellectually dishonest about our history. But we know Nikki Haley very well. I…

transcripts.cnn.com
Jun 4, 2023

if Donald Trump wins Iowa, the rest of this is academic. I mean, he will be the nominee.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jun 4, 2023

Chris Christie, go out and do to Donald Trump what you did to Marco Rubio.

transcripts.cnn.com
Apr 11, 2023

democracy is fragile, and I think when you have individuals like those who lead the Tennessee Republican Party, the Speaker of the House in Tennessee, who decided to overstep their bounds, who decided to use racism as political currency…

transcripts.cnn.com
Apr 11, 2023

what that Tennessee Legislature did was one, go full racism; and two, harken back to a day of 1966 and they're going to say, Bakari, don't call me racist. Don't play the race card. Well, no, don't be racist. We won't play the race card.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 5, 2023

The United States of America doesn't want Joe Biden or Donald Trump to run for office, period.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 5, 2023

I think that what you're going to see is a President who has been very successful in his first two years in office.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 5, 2023

I mean, people don't want two octogenarians running for President of the United States, but I think that when we're talking about tomorrow and the job of the past, from tomorrow backwards, Joe Biden has been an extremely effective…

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 19, 2023

You have to talk about your accomplishments. You have to talk about the Inflation Reduction Act. You have to talk about Ketanji Brown Jackson.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 18, 2023

Everything we talk about, about our history, and who we are, is not critical race theory. My being is not critical race theory. It's American history.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 18, 2023

We refuse to talk about April 4th, 1968, where Dr. King was assassinated? February 8th, 1968, the Orangeburg Massacre? ... That's not something that is a fairy tale. That is a history of who we are.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 18, 2023

I mean, this is anti-intellectualism. This is anti-black racism. This is systemic -- when we talk about systemic racism, this is exactly what we're talking about.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 18, 2023

I just think it's a damn shame what Ron DeSantis is doing, but nobody's going to stop him because they are afraid of what may be next for Mr. DeSantis.

transcripts.cnn.com
Dec 27, 2022

Are you up to running for President of the United States? You run for president multiple times before and lead the United States of America, you know, through inflation, through these other issues, through war, negotiating, Ukraine and…

transcripts.cnn.com
Dec 27, 2022

What do you want your legacy to be? And I think you have an amazing opportunity to continue that legacy and build upon it by passing the torch.

transcripts.cnn.com
Nov 29, 2022

Tomorrow, you have Barack Obama, who is, I would say, arguably the most popular, either current-elected or former-elected official out there, on the campaign trail, campaigning for Raphael Warnock.

transcripts.cnn.com
Nov 29, 2022

No, undoubtedly, that's good news for Democrats. I mean, we've seen the trends.

transcripts.cnn.com
Nov 29, 2022

Let me just say that the closing message for Herschel Walker is God knows what. He's ill-fitted, he's ill-equipped to be a United States Senator. And I think that people are recognizing that.

transcripts.cnn.com

Politicians like Bakari Sellers