Peter Mandelson famous quotes

04-17-2025

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Europe #Unity #Single Relationship
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Politician #Throwing
I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Optimistic #Opportunity #Vision
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Europe #People #Priorities
I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Fighter #Quitter
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Skills #Campaigning
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Believe #Enemy #China
Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Space #People #World
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Europe #Mind #Identity
I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Believe #Gains #Trade
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Instability #Uncertainty
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Thinking #Decision #Explaining
The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
-- Peter Mandelson

#World #Lasts #Faces
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Moved On #Politician #Blair
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Europe #Ideas
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Taken #Past #Doors
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Thinking #Europe
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Jobs #Home #Europe
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Dirty #Party #Naughty
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Want #Conflict #Plunge
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Needs #Reform #Economic
In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Space #India #Dramatic
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Europe #Squares #Insecurity
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Fall #Falling Apart #Chaos
There is no high-carbon future
-- Peter Mandelson

#Climate Change #Carbon
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Attitude #Europe #Half
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
-- Peter Mandelson

#World #Growing #Facts
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Ideas #Government #Brilliant

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