Fabby 16 Selected Quotes By - Alastair Campbell

Fabby 16 Selected Quotes By - Alastair Campbelle

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 route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

— Alastair Campbell

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

— Alastair Campbell

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

— 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 And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

— Alastair Campbell

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

— 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 admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

— Alastair Campbell

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

— Alastair Campbell

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

— 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

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

— Alastair Campbell

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

— Alastair Campbell

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