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Harri Holkeri (Politician)

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 education

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

— Harri Holkeri peace

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

— Harri Holkeri women

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 people

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 truth

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

— Harri Holkeri change

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

— Harri Holkeri goal

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

— Harri Holkeri women

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

— Harri Holkeri 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.

— Harri Holkeri art

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

— Harri Holkeri thinking

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 life

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 man

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.

— Harri Holkeri time

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 war

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 education

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

— Harri Holkeri art

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

— Harri Holkeri hope

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

— Harri Holkeri self

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 art

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

— Harri Holkeri history

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

— Harri Holkeri mind

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

— Harri Holkeri self

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 war

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 art

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