Peter Mandelson Quotes

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

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.

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

This policy and drill [of political parties], first organized by Thomas Jefferson, first accomplish his election, and established the Virginia Dynasty of twenty-four years, a perpetual practical contradiction of its own principles.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.

I like Tony Blair.

Rahul Gandhi lacks the mass appeal and not a match to Modi… people will not not accept him as prime minister.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

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

I want to become prime minister.

Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

The importance of the leader has always mattered, whether it was Indira Gandhi, V. P. Singh, or Narendra Modi.

I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

A good man should be on the PM's chair. The country's condition should improve. Only because of this I have supported Modi. You may call it a masterstroke or anything else.