Agendas Quote by Harri Holkeri

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

— Harri Holkeri

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation…

— Harri Holkeri

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned;…

— Harri Holkeri

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…

— Harri Holkeri

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

— Harri Holkeri

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue…

— Harri Holkeri

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

— Harri Holkeri

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are…

— Harri Holkeri

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the…

— Harri Holkeri

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living…

— Harri Holkeri

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

— Harri Holkeri

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

— Harri Holkeri