Alastair Campbell Quotes

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

I never criticized Modi. All I said was that Modi cannot be a chief minister and still nurse prime ministerial ambitions. I only suggested that he should resign as the chief minister and then stake his claim to be prime minister.

I want to become prime minister.

Rahul Gandhi lacks the mass appeal and not a match to Modi… people will not not accept him as prime minister.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

In a strange way, Hillary Clinton was helped and victimized by Barack and Michelle Obama.Michelle Obama was probably better than Barack Obama, if you think about it.Her speech is a masterful, masterful speech. And she delivered it in a persuasively conversational tone.

I've heard this theory that this is basically Jeb's [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in Marco Rubio because if people are talking about accepting [Donald] Trump over [Ted] Cruz, what they're really saying is Marco Rubio's no longer viable.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and make the best decision we can make for our football team on a case-by-case basis. It's the same for every single player; the process is the same.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

We have to be focused on not just who is in [Donald's Trump] favor and who is in his good graces and who looks right or what the palace intrigue is.

A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

Politics is more difficult than physics.