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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.

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

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

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

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.

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.

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 that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

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