But What Can I Do? Quotes

“Populism’, he said, ‘is the art of agitating disaffected voters to vote against their best interests by amplifying problems and not really offering anything in return.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

“We must not only want to make a difference, but believe that we can.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?

“Yet 'woke', and its ally 'snowflake', are used in practice to try and shut down any criticism or questioning of the populist, polarising, post-truth approach. In other words they are aimed at shutting down the free speach of others!”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?

“We have to believe that things can be better, or we give up. We have to do whatever we can to bring about the positive change. And the first step on that road is to believe we can.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?

“Her great strength is that she is uncharmable. She deals in fact.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

“The ships needed to get out to sea,’ his father told him, ‘to fish, to transport people and goods, to keep the wheels of the economy turning. But ships cannot sail on ice. So the ice-breaker was the lead ship, and that is where the word leadership comes from. It is, literally, the lead ship. It cut through the ice, and as it did so the waters opened and widened behind it, and the other ships could follow.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

“It’s over to you, youth. Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now. And the old must let you sing.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

“Nolan Principles – Honesty, Openness, Objectivity, Selflessness, Integrity, Accountability, Leadership”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

“Everything is impossible – until you make it happen.”
― Alastair Campbell, But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It