Quote

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.

Alastair Campbell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
Diarist
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Keighley
West Yorkshire
Alastair John Campbell
Asks
Sure
Powell
Jobs
Jonathan
Sometimes
Blair
Would
Tony
Ultimately
Absolutely
Decision

More quotes by Alastair Campbell

Image
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
Alastair Campbell
Image
I feel like thanking Paul Dacre every time, because the reason they ask me is because they think I've come through the other end with a pretty good reputation. Loads of people get a bad press but have a good reputation. [David] Beckham - think what he went through. [Bill] Clinton, likewise. You just have to be true to yourself.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Alastair Campbell
Image
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Alastair Campbell
Image
I think I'm highly loveable.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.
Alastair Campbell
Image
Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
Alastair Campbell
Image
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
Alastair Campbell
Image
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Alastair Campbell
Image
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
Alastair Campbell
Image
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
Alastair Campbell
Image
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?'
Alastair Campbell
Image
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.
Alastair Campbell
Image
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Alastair Campbell