80 Quotes by Alastair Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.