37 Quotes by Harri Holkeri

Minä juon nyt kahvia.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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