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Peter Mandelson
12 quotes
“Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in tatters, apparently never to be part of political life again. Well they underestimated Hartlepool and they underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter!My political opponents can have their pound of flesh, and they do, but they will not eat into of my beliefs, what I stand for and have done in politics. That is the inner steel in me.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jason Beattie, Jon Hibbs, "Triumphant Mandelson hails new Labour victory", Scotsman, 8 June 2001, p. 5.
“Bashar [al-Assad] is an intelligent and cultured individual who, having lived and studied in London, wanted to show off his perfect English (unfortunately I did not meet his English wife); but also because, like so many leaders of his type and generation, he is looking for a fresh paradigm for his country that will rescue it from economic backwardness without plunging it into political chaos. Hu Jintao, visiting London this week from China, could tell an identical story.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My verdict on Syria's young leader: a decent man doing a difficult job", The Independent (1 November 2001).
“No serious challenge on the Left exists to Third Way thinking anywhere in the world. This is hardly surprising as globalisation punishes hard any country that tries to run its economy by ignoring the realities of the market or prudent public finances. In this strictly narrow sense, and in the urgent need to remove rigidities and incorporate flexibility in capital, product and labour markets, we are all "Thatcherite" now.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in "Left Behind", The Wall Street Journal (17 June 2002), original source: "There's plenty of life in the 'new' Third Way yet", The Times, (10 June 2002), p. 16.
“Apart from the fact that I am not actually Jewish, I wear my father's parentage with pride.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to comments by Tam Dalyell, as cited in "Fury as Dalyell attacks Blair's 'Jewish cabal'", The Telegraph (4 May 2003).
“In 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a statement to the Daily Mail, as reproduced in "Labour 'sent out search parties for immigrants', Lord Mandelson admits", The Telegraph (14 May 2013).
“[On Jeremy Corbyn's then Labour leadership] I work every single day, in some small way, to try to move forward the end of his tenure in office. I work every day — an email, a phone call, a meeting with Labour MPs. I try and galvanise them. Every day I do something to rescue the Labour Party from his leadership.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in "Lord Mandelson says he is working daily to bring down Jeremy Corbyn", The Jewish Chronicle (20 February 2017).
“The [Labour] party has lost its efficacy for many in these places [...] We are in an era of much weaker party loyalty and affiliation than ever before. They [voters] are casting around for a different sort of politics, less hidebound by tradition, old emblems, sentimentality, and for a more transactional, efficacious approach ... They are not so much left behind; it's Labour that is being left behind.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We look out of date, with too little to say about the contemporary world [...] The truth is we talk endlessly about the 'same old Tories', what the voters are talking about is the 'same old Labour'. We've got to wake up to that. For many voters, there is a simple question: what is the point of voting Labour?”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Anoosh Chakelian, as cited in "Peter Mandelson: 'I'm afraid Keir Starmer has come badly unstuck", New Statesman (11 May 2021).
“I regret ever meeting him or being introduced to him by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell [...] I regret even more the hurt he caused to many young women. [...] I’m not going to go into this. It's an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extracts from an interview, as cited in "Peter Mandelsons back: the Prince of Darkness returns", Financial Times (6 February 2025).
“Britain’s interests and those of other liberal democracies lie in how we harness the power of the US to continue safeguarding the principles – if not always the letter – of the UN Charter. This will mean accepting that Trump’s decisive approach when faced with real-world situations is preferable to the hand-wringing and analysis paralysis that has characterised some previous US administrations or, indeed, the deadlock and prevarication that so often characterise the UN and the EU respectively.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump’s lessons for Europe", The Spectator (10 January 2026).
“[On his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein] Possibly some people will think because I am a gay man... I wasn't attuned to what was going on. I don't really accept that. I think the issue is that because I was a gay man in his circle I was kept separate from what he was doing in the sexual side of his life. The only people that were there were the housekeepers, never were there any young women or girls, or people that he was preying on or engaging with in that sort of ghastly predatory way that we subsequently found out he was doing.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview broadcast on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, as cited in "Epstein kept me 'separate' from his sexual side because I'm gay", BBC News (11 January 2026)
“As you will have seen my position as Ambassador to the United States has come to an end. Being Ambassador here has been the privilege of my life, and Reinaldo's. I could not have wished for a better welcome by you all, a better introduction to the job or better support while here. Your professionalism has been superb, more so than I have experienced in any public role. For this I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The circumstances surrounding the announcement today are ones which I deeply regret. I continue to feel utterly awful about my association with Epstein twenty years ago and the plight of his victims. I have no alternative to accepting the Prime Minister's decision and will leave a position in which I have been so incredibly honoured to serve.”
Peter Mandelson (born 1953) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Read Peter Mandelson's letter to US embassy staff after being sacked", Sky News (11 September 2025).