80 Quotes by Alastair Campbell

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

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

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.

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 And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

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.

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

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.

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

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