Harri Holkeri Quotes

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

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• 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.

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• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to s*x.

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

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Harri Holkeri (30)

Birth:	6th January, 1937
Death:	7th August, 2011
Nationality:	Finnish
Profession:	Politician

About

Harri Hermanni Holkeri was born in Oripää, Finland. He was a Finnish politician. He was the chairman of the National Coalition Party from 1971 to 1979. He was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1987 to 1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and headed the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo from 2003 to 2004. He was awarded the highest Finnish honorary title of Counselor of State in 1998 by the President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari.

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