Alastair Campbell

I think I'm highly loveable.

— Alastair Campbell

I had a happy childhood.

— Alastair Campbell

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

— Alastair Campbell

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

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There is something in me that makes me see things through.

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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

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To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

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I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

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I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also…

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“It is all about how the party sees them as they strut around the conference, and got fuck all to do with…

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As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the…

— Alastair Campbell

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that…

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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

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I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

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I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary.…

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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it…

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I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I…

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The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are…

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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of…

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This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was…

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“For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That…

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Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time…

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I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC…

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All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke…

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The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

— Alastair Campbell

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his…

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Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that.…

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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her…

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Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

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My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could…

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The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

— Alastair Campbell