Harri Holkeri Quotes

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you…
• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil…
• I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty…
• I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the…
• I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of…
• In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions…
• Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
• In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to…
• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the…
• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep…
• That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has…
• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
• What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as…
• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at…
• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but…
• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned…

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