Top 30 Quotes by Harri Holkeri

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.