Blair Quote by Alastair Campbell
“For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.”
![“I feel like thanking Paul Dacre every time, because the reason they ask me is because they think I've come through the other end with a pretty good reputation. Loads of people get a bad press but have a good reputation. [David] Beckham - think what he went through. [Bill] Clinton, likewise. You…” quote by Alastair Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e77/alastair-campbell-11941_ask-me_i-feel-like-thanking-paul-dacre-every-ti_126858.jpg)
![“Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.” quote by Alastair Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/794/alastair-campbell-11941_asks_sometimes-jonathan-powell-and-myself-wou_318302.jpg)
![“Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation…” quote by Alastair Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/521/alastair-campbell-11941_blair_paul-keating-told-us-before-we-were-elec_763203.jpg)
![“There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd…” quote by Melanie Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/906/melanie-lynskey-11682_battering_there-s-a-rhythm-to-script-in-i-don-t-fe_120254.jpg)
![“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying…” quote by Larry King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c7/larry-king-7288_attention_the-british-press-claimed-that-tony-blai_202561.jpg)
