Alastair Campbell Quotes

The media is comparable to government--probably passes government in raw power

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

Lobbying is declared to be a crime.

The White House expansion to control the entire corpus of the News was the direct result of television.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

The media have entered government as a revolutionary force.

I'm not a lobbyist.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

I don't think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

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

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

The media is trying to rig the election.