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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

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#because #come #enjoyed #everybody #fun

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#books #campaigns #countries #endured #experiences

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

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

#broadcast #christmas #christmas day #classic #day

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

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 #coverage #culture #defined #goes

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

— Alastair Campbell

#marriage #me #partly #religious #thing

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#beginning #capacity #constantly #decreases #enjoyment