16 Random Quotes From Alastair Campbell
16 Random Quotes From Alastair Campbelle |
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
— Alastair Campbell
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
— 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
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
— Alastair Campbell
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
— Alastair Campbell
I had a happy childhood.
— Alastair Campbell
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
— Alastair Campbell
There is something in me that makes me see things through.
— Alastair Campbell
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
— 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 almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
— 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 a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
— Alastair Campbell
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
— Alastair Campbell
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
— Alastair Campbell
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
— Alastair Campbell
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
— Alastair Campbell
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
— Alastair Campbell
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