Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

— Alastair Campbell

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is…

— Alastair Campbell

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of…

— Alastair Campbell

I think I'm highly loveable.

— Alastair Campbell

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the…

— Alastair Campbell

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at…

— Alastair Campbell

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail…

— Alastair Campbell

“Some twat with a Trot poster came up to me on the way in and yelled ‘Butcher!’ Traitor!’ at me. I stopped…

— Alastair Campbell