Top 35 Alastair Campbell Quotes (2024 Update)

Alastair Campbell Quote: “Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.”

1. “Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “I think I’m highly loveable.”

2. “I think I’m highly loveable.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.”

3. “One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.”

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

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

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

6. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.”

9. “For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.”

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

10. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “Don’t accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.”

11. “Don’t accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.”

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

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

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “Some twat with a Trot poster came up to me on the way in and yelled ‘Butcher!’ Traitor!’ at me. I stopped and mustered as much visual contempt as I could, then assured him that if we win the general election then don’t worry, thanks to wankers like him, there will always be another Tory government along afterwards. These people make me vomit.”

13. “Some twat with a Trot poster came up to me on the way in and yelled ‘Butcher!’ Traitor!’ at me. I stopped and mustered as much visual contempt as I could, then assured him that if we win the general election then don’t worry, thanks to wankers like him, there will always be another Tory government along afterwards. These people make me vomit.”

— Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “I’m certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”

15. “I’m certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That is not a very fashionable view to hold, but as someone who has operated at senior levels in journalism and politics, around a decade in each, it is my respect for the media that has shrunk, and my respect for politics that has grown.”

16. “For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That is not a very fashionable view to hold, but as someone who has operated at senior levels in journalism and politics, around a decade in each, it is my respect for the media that has shrunk, and my respect for politics that has grown.”

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

17. “One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.”

19. “Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “There is something in me that makes me see things through.”

20. “There is something in me that makes me see things through.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “I had a happy childhood.”

22. “I had a happy childhood.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

23. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

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

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

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “If you look at the other people around at the time – Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw – they’ve all gone. And they’re not old. What’s happened is that someone who is quite old – Jeremy Corbyn – is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.”

27. “If you look at the other people around at the time – Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw – they’ve all gone. And they’re not old. What’s happened is that someone who is quite old – Jeremy Corbyn – is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that’s sad.”

29. “What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that’s sad.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

30. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.”

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

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

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

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I’m not religious.”

33. “To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I’m not religious.”

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Alastair Campbell Quote: “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.”

34. “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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Alastair Campbell Quote: “Jeremy, are we going to play your games?”

35. “Jeremy, are we going to play your games?”

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