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

Alastair Campbell

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Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
Diarist
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Keighley
West Yorkshire
Alastair John Campbell
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I think I'm highly loveable.
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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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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
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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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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
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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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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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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
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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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Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.
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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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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.
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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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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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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.
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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.
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To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
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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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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 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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