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Harri Holkeri Quotes

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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 education, which enables a better life for women.  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 his eye on  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 war is almost every time present, even in the United States  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 not in Africa and the developing countries  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 education, which enables a better life for women  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 question  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) Without accepting the other person’s thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other’s help to get results  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 because there were so many visions which were not very good  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 we are teaching  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 get results  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 will get nothing  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 of mankind  (Harri Holkeri Quotes) 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 items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there  (Harri Holkeri Quotes)