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PA file photo dated 24/11/03 of Peter Mandelson. Former Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, who has stepped down formally as an MP to take up his new position as European Commissioner, has entered the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations for the first time Thursday September 8, 2004. He sits next door to Nelson Mandela and not far from Machiavelli with the words 'I am a fighter and not a quitter', uttered when he won back his Hartlepool seat in the general election of 2001. See PA 0430 story POLITICS Hartlepool. PA Photo.