"My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate."
"The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine."
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Source: Alastair Campbell by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.
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