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Alastair Campbell

British Journalist

Born: May 25, 1957

Happiness Life Me People Political You

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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. Alastair Campbell

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. Alastair Campbell

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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. Alastair Campbell

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. Alastair Campbell

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

Me Marriage Religious Partly Thing

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. Alastair Campbell

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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

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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. Alastair Campbell

Like Most Campaigns Meaningful Games Team Activities

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

Sometimes First Late Pressures Wrong Greater Than Get Story Right

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. Alastair Campbell

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

Esteem Decline Reasons Many Thick Royal Royals

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

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

Political Will Believe Way Causes Continue Any Help

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

You Everyone Says Crisis Accept Because Just Just Because

I think I'm highly loveable. Alastair Campbell

Think Highly

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