Alastair Campbell Quotes

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

Point, Four, Illness

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

Today, Bad, Once

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

Film, Star, Media

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

Crisis, Everyone, Accept

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

Failure, Thought, Read

I had a happy childhood.
Alastair Campbell

Happy, Childhood

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

Driven, Deeply, Believed

I think I'm highly loveable.
Alastair Campbell

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

Life, Used, Existence

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

Help, Political, Continue

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

Hate, Losing, Driven

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
Alastair Campbell

Team, Games, Meaningful

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

Love, Dad, Greatest

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
Alastair Campbell

Public, Male, Caricature

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

Truth, Eyes, Her

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

Bad, Media, Seem

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

Sometimes, Wrong, Story

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

Reasons, Royal, Thick

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

Politics, May, Culture

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

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

Marriage, Religious, Partly

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

Love, Good, Sports

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

Happiness, Politics, Happy

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

Life, Wisdom, Him

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

Happiness, Person, Down

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 25, 1957

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