Alastair Campbell Quotes

British - Journalist | May 25, 1957 -

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.

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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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