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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

Topics: Almost Autobiography Clinton Country Days Earth Eight Heard Life Long Man More Most Most Powerful My Life Pages Powerful President Recent Remarks Short Too Years

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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

Topics: All People Big Boil Clinton Conventional Conventional Wisdom Down Few Gets Him His Importance Interested Led Life Madness Media Moments Office Oval Oval Office People Personality Presidency Really Significance Some View Who Wisdom Wrong

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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Boost Cause Constant Existence Family Fine Get Hospitals Idiotic John Leading Major Members Mouths Open Opening Reminder Republican Rhetoric Royal Statements Trouble

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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

Topics: Decline Esteem Many Reasons Royal Thick

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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

Topics: About Broadcast Christmas Classic Day Earliest Eight May Memory Mother Political Queen Refusing Row Say Share Shrinks Stuff Watch Would You

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I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Always Been Believe Believed Deeply Driven Very I Believe

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

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Any Believe Causes Continue Help Political Way Will I Can I Believe I Believe In

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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Clear Existence Full-Time Having Life My Life New New Thing Thing Used Very

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

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Accurate Alpha Caricature Male Only Partly Public

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There is something in me that makes me see things through.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Makes Me See Something Things Through

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 25th, 1957

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