"The pressures to get the story first, if……" — Alastair Campbell
"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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35 Quotes by Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell has 35 quotes on this site.
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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen…
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our…
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his…
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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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Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
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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…
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so…
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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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By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is…
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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