Peter Mandelson quotes
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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.”
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“Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : 1996 Of Tony Blair and the revision of Clause Four. In the New Yorker, 5 Feb.
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“I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.”
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“Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : "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.”
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“I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.”
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“Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.”
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“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 MandelsonSource : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
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“I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.”
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“The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
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“Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
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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 MandelsonSource : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
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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.”
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“What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.”
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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.”
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“I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : "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.”
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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.”
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“They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.”
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“Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.”
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“In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.”
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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 MandelsonSource : "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
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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.”
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“There is no high-carbon future”
-- Peter MandelsonSource : "High-speed rail plan part of strategy to reduce transport emissions" Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.
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“I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.”
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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.”
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“It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.”
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