British - Journalist | May 25, 1957 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
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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.
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The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
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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.
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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
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