Top 30 Quotes by 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 of education, which enables a better life for women.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.