Alastair Campbell Quotes

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Media, World

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Royal, Reason, Decline

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Accepting, Crisis

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Hate, Losing, Driven

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• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Doctors, Media, Medicine

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

  Alastair Campbell

  Meaningful, Team, Games

  "Philip Gould, the best listener in politics" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2011.

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• This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Team, Believe

  "NewsPeople Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Believe, Taken

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• I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Player, Next Day

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Four, Mental Illness

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• 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. Tony [Blair] disagreed.

  Alastair Campbell

  Self, Media, Regulation

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think I'm highly loveable.

  Alastair Campbell

  Thinking

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• 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

  Taken, Eye, Media

  "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

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• I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Lying, War

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

  Alastair Campbell

  Book, Impossible, Brilliant

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Alastair Campbell

  Liars, Paper, Telling The Truth

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Believe, Political, Way

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Mouths, Royal, Causes

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• 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

  Christmas, Mother, Queens

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• 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

  Way, Politician, Weak

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Sports, Football, Fans

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Dog, Dad, Cat

  "Alastair Campbell: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Want, Sells

  "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Dykes, Records

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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