List of Alastair Campbell Quotes

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.

To Me, Marriage Is Partly A Religious Thing And I'm Not Religious.

Tony [blair] Slowly Sucked Me Back In For The 2005 Campaign, And From Six Months Out, I Was Basically Working Full Time Trying To Keep The Tony[blair] - Gordon[brown] Thing Together For The Campaign. It Was Awful.

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 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.

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.

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.

Tony's [blair] Convinced I'm Going To Find God. I Do Have Spiritual Moments, But I Don't Think It's God.

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?'