Chuka Umunna Quotes

Very few [Americans] ... take an active part in politics, however interested they may be in public affairs.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

I am not political as a person.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

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

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

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.

I'm not super-political.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.