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

- Alastair Campbell

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

- Alastair Campbell

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.…

- Alastair Campbell

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

- Alastair Campbell

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

- Alastair Campbell

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

- Alastair Campbell

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of …

- Alastair Campbell

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo…

- Alastair Campbell

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