Alastair Campbell Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

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

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

I think I'm highly loveable.

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

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

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

I had a happy childhood.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

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.

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

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.

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

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

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.

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.

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