Alastair Campbell Quotes

British - Journalist | May 25, 1957 -

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

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

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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.

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

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I had a happy childhood.

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

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I think I'm highly loveable.

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

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 And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

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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.

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

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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.

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