Quotes about Peter Mandelson

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Peter Mandelson is someone who can skulk in broad daylight.

If Peter Mandelson has an historical parallel, it is Robespierre, the architect of the Terror. Without his zeal and cool passion for the right of the French people, the ancien regime would almost certainly have reasserted itself in some way. His defence of the ideals of the revolution was absolute and unmoving. It won him no friends, and eventually swallowed him. It would be a tragedy for Labour if it were to do the same to the architect of its own revolution.

Trevor Phillips

My project will be complete when the Labour party learns to love Peter Mandelson.

Design is the great adventure of the twentieth century; it's led... to the aestheticization of the everyday object, to the democratization of luxury. Today, you, me and even young Peter Mandelson can buy a disposable Bic razor for next to nothing and get a better shave than ever Augustus Caesar or the Sun King could.

I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

Jeremy Clarkson

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.