Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

I feel like thanking Paul Dacre every time, because the reason they ask me is because they think I've come through the…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

I had a happy childhood.

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a…

— Alastair Campbell

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone.…

— Alastair Campbell