Peter Mandelson Quotes

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

I'm a loyal Democrat.

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

My father [Pandit Nehru] was a statesman. I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

It used to be that I was known as 'the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,' which is true. Now I'm a 'self-professed democratic socialist.' Things change when you run for president.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.