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" By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?' "
Politics
Happy
Happiness
" 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. "
Wisdom
Life
Media
" Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. "
Thought
People
I Am
" Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. "
Friends
Think
Know
" I had a happy childhood. "
Happy
Had
Childhood
" I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply. "
I Believe
Always
Been
" I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. "
Hopeless
Live
People
" I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. "
I Can
Driven
Competitive
" In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. "
Media
Film
Mental Illness
" I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity. "
Pleasure
Fight
Film
" Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. "
Like
Games
Team
" 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. "
Political
Mother
Queen
" My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn. "
Life
Soul
Party
" My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. "
Friend
Practice
Myself
" 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. "
Practice
Animals
Bread
" One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. "
Mental Illness
Mental
Will
" 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. "
Man
Life
Short
" So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. "
Happiness
Happy
Life
" The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public. "
People
Eye
Today
" The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late. "
Late
Right
Sometimes
" There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. "
Reasons
Royal
Esteem
" There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. "
Culture
Negativity
Politics
" 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. "
Trouble
Rhetoric
Republican
" The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it. "
Doing
You
Way
" To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious. "
Me
Marriage
Partly
" We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. "
Next
Fan
Good
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