For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demo...
PETER MANDELSON They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
PETER MANDELSON We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single ...
PETER MANDELSON Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
PETER MANDELSON I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
PETER MANDELSON Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable futur...
PETER MANDELSON Having made this offer, Europe is in a much stronger position to negotiate and unlock the talks.
PETER MANDELSON Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
PETER MANDELSON It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full t...
PETER MANDELSON The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
PETER MANDELSON As for realism -- at this point in the talks, I am looking first to the United States for more of th...
PETER MANDELSON I feel hopeful and confident that the ultimate prize -- stable, inclusive government in Northern Ire...
PETER MANDELSON The agreement will give players on both sides clarity, certainty and predictability.
PETER MANDELSON I do not exaggerate when I say that the Hong Kong ministerial meeting is on a knife-edge,
PETER MANDELSON It is not as it has been painted - with me being pro-nuclear and Margaret being anti-nuclear. We bot...
PETER MANDELSON It is not possible to go for full modalities at Hong Kong (where a crucial WTO ministerial meeting i...
PETER MANDELSON It is not possible to go for full modalities (of a detailed outline) at Hong Kong. But that does not...
PETER MANDELSON I accept that it is not possible to go for full modalities (of a detailed outline) at Hong Kong. But...
PETER MANDELSON The gap is significant. This has been sobering for all the ministers.
PETER MANDELSON I am a fighter and not a quitter.
PETER MANDELSON There is no benefit at all for us taking these parochial fights and these past divisions onto the Eu...
PETER MANDELSON I don't think people will complain about that, in particular those who bring some perspective to thi...
PETER MANDELSON Europe's offer provides a middle ground around which WTO members should converge,
PETER MANDELSON Europe needs a powerful, strategic response to what is a major strategic challenge and opportunity i...
PETER MANDELSON negotiation and agreement, and not confrontation.
PETER MANDELSON We need to make progress in other areas. We need to address the whole of the agenda if we are to mak...
PETER MANDELSON Europe is ready to work for a successful ambitious conclusion
PETER MANDELSON By any measure what we are putting forward is a very deep cut,
PETER MANDELSON I'm proud of this country's economic record and its achievements. But let's have no exaggerated gloa...
PETER MANDELSON This meeting has certainly cleared the air and cleared up the question marks over the Commission's r...
PETER MANDELSON We are strongly committed to bringing everything together for Hong Kong, including for agriculture,
PETER MANDELSON We will not succeed, in Hong Kong or after, if we continue to focus on only one part of the round. W...
PETER MANDELSON This is a step in the right direction but it is clear more needs to be done. The real problem for Af...
PETER MANDELSON There couldn't be any less negotiation.
PETER MANDELSON There are some very needy developing countries, like for example the cotton producers of west Africa...
PETER MANDELSON We are going to stick to our position.
PETER MANDELSON We want Hong Kong to be more than treading water
PETER MANDELSON There is progress in agriculture, even though we are still looking for further commitments from othe...
PETER MANDELSON I hope we will get an agreement, if we are going to get an agreement at all, before the summit.
PETER MANDELSON We must not sacrifice the CAP.
PETER MANDELSON I am very glad that we have been able to reach agreement on this important question. The EU has work...
PETER MANDELSON At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON Simply demanding more in agriculture...does not add up to a serious negotiation,
PETER MANDELSON If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too importan...
PETER MANDELSON I do not believe it will be helpful to the (WTO) talks to make a further offer on agriculture, becau...
PETER MANDELSON Progress is certainly needed if we are going to make Hong Kong the success we want, ... But if that ...
PETER MANDELSON The moment you start reducing expectations you risk introducing complacency,
PETER MANDELSON There is a clear preference by the great majority to adjust expectations,
PETER MANDELSON Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain...
PETER MANDELSON Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL