Tarja Halonen

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.