Alastair Campbell

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

— Alastair Campbell

#competitive #driven #hate #i #i can

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#campaigns #games #like #meaningful #most

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 And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.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

#could #definitely #double #father #i

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. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#butter #cats #dad #dogs #donald

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

— Alastair Campbell

#alpha #caricature #male #only #partly

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. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#bad news #eye #however #journalists #media

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

#day #died #eyes #getting #her

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

— Alastair Campbell

#bad #bad thing #doctors #media #medicine

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#get #greater #late #pressures #right

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

— Alastair Campbell

#esteem #many #reasons #royal #royals