Jean Kennedy Smith Quotes

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

My kids have been around politics since they were little.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

My father was not a political animal.

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics around the dinner table. So my involvement in politics came about through activism.

I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics.

One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but they were interesting about and interested in the world.

Politics wasn't actively discussed in my household. I only knew that my parents had always supported the opposition.

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.

I am such a political person.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.