I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
I never considered politics as an option, not ever.
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.
I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.
I don't know why, but I've had an interest and passion for politics.
I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
Modi doesn't seem to be interested in Odisha. I certainly feel that.
My father was not a political animal.
That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.
I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.
Politics is in my blood.
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.
Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.
I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.
Note the energy with which the media is going after Donald Trump Jr. And there's a reason. They want to dirty him up. They want to destroy the guy before he gets started on his own political career. He has an obvious interest in politics. He knows his stuff - and he can sell it and he can be persuasive with it - and he is the exact kind of conservative they want to destroy before he gets started.
