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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
#Christmas
#Day
#Memory
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#Queen
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
#Happiness
#Political
#Politics
#Try
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
- Alastair Campbell
#Fan
#Football
#Good
#Love
#Sports
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
#Doing
#Politicians
#Protest
#Way
#Weak
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
#Candle
#Hopeless
#Live
#People
#Skills
I had a happy childhood.
- Alastair Campbell
#Childhood
#Had
#Happy Childhood
#Happy
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 And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.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
#Father
#Life
#Me
#Soul
#Workaholic
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
#Death
#Happiness
#Life
#Politics
#View
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
- Alastair Campbell
#Clear
#Existence
#Life
#My Life
#New
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
#Happiness
#I Am
#Know
#Person
#Sometimes
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
- Alastair Campbell
#Marriage
#Me
#Partly
#Religious
#Thing
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
- Alastair Campbell
#Competitive
#Driven
#Hate
#I Can
#Losing
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
- Alastair Campbell
#Beyond
#Culture
#Negativity
#Politics
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
- Alastair Campbell
#Great
#Long
#Myself
#Practice
#Roses
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
#Bread
#Cats
#Dad
#Love
#Practice
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
- Alastair Campbell
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#Esteem
#Many
#Royal
#Thick
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