Chiranjeevi Quotes

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.

Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Prescott Bush had plenty of admirers.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I knew I always wanted to get involved in politics.

Politics is in my blood.

Since young age, I am in politics.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

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

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

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

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

I didn't grow up in politics.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.