Peter Mandelson Quotes

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• We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

  Peter Mandelson

  People, Rich, Filthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

  Peter Mandelson

  Instability, Uncertainty

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

  Peter Mandelson

  Believe, Enemy, Treats

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• I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

  Peter Mandelson

  Fighter, Quitter

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• Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

  Peter Mandelson

  Europe, People, Priorities

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• 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

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• Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

  Peter Mandelson

  Politician, Throwing, High Ground

  1996 Of Tony Blair and the revision of Clause Four. In the New Yorker, 5 Feb.

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• They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

  Peter Mandelson

  Want, Conflict, Plunge

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• Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

  Peter Mandelson

  Space, People, World

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• Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

  Peter Mandelson

  Thinking, Decision, Explaining

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• 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

  Squares, Europe, Insecurity

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• 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

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• 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

  Needs, World, Lasts

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

  Peter Mandelson

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Vision

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• There is no high-carbon future

  Peter Mandelson

  Climate Change, Carbon

  "High-speed rail plan part of strategy to reduce transport emissions" Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.

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• I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

  Peter Mandelson

  Lying, People, Knows

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• I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

  Peter Mandelson

  Thinking, Europe, Right Direction

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

  Peter Mandelson

  Skills, Campaigning

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• 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

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• 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, Chaos, Internals

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

  Peter Mandelson

  Jobs, Home, Europe

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• 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

  Party, Dirty, Technology

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• What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

  Peter Mandelson

  Europe, Ideas

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• Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

  Peter Mandelson

  Reform, Needs, Economic

  "Full text: Peter Mandelson's speech on a new consensus for Europe", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2005.

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