37 Quotes by Harri Holkeri

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.