Quotes by Harri Holkeri - Page 1

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Decision
Political
Regard
Thinking
Copy Quote
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Party
Rebuilding
Succeed
Parties
Copy Quote
Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Aim
Decision
Discussion
Finals
Goal
Final
Tool
Copy Quote
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Enforcement
Kind
Operations
Peacekeeping
Operation
Copy Quote
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Women
Men
Different
Equal
Men And Women
Rights
Roles
Men Women Men And Women
Women Men Men And Women
Women Men Equal
Copy Quote
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Commit
Solutions
Decisions
Copy Quote
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Tools
Copy Quote
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Decision
Political
Political Decisions
Reaching
Transparent
Way
Decisions
Represent
Copy Quote
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Divided
Has Beens
Problem
Copy Quote
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Giving
Impetus
Millennium
Nations
Summit
United Nations
Copy Quote
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Challenges
Obstacles
Trying
Advantages
Let Us
Copy Quote
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Men
Equal
Finland
Political Rights
Regard
Rights
Sex
Men Women Sex
According
Women Men Sex
Women Men Political
Women And Men
Copy Quote
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Further
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Individual
May
Teaching
Scale
Individuals
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Birth
Birth Control
Giving
Impetus
Overpopulation
Poverty
Talking
Thinking
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Inspirational
Finals
Negotiation
Tables
Final
Saying
Table
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Different
Force
Heritage
Mankind
Nations
Use
Violence
Traditions
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
International
Mind
Order
People
Crises
Minds
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Assembly
Council
Eye
General Assembly
Issues
President
Security Council
Copy Quote
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Environmental
Concerned
Finnish
Urgent
Facing
Grave
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Consensus Building
Ideas
Tables
Table
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Assembly
Better Life
Emphasis
General Assembly
Issues
President
Life Education Women
Issue
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Differences
Items
Thinking
Years
Years Ago
Article
Recently
Valid
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Girl
Accepted
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Europe
Africa
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Antagonism
Cooperation
Facts
People
Together
Together People Nothing
Transform
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Becoming
Country
Finland
Sea
Shore
Sweden
Water Of Life
Baltic
Countries
More And More
Near
Polluted
Protecting
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Children
Concerned
Grandfather
Vision
First Child
Letter
Telling
Visions
Wrote
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Conflict
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Problem
Nationalist
Northern
Copy Quote
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
War
Civil War
Finland
Independent
Ireland
Nations
Years
Years Ago
War Time History
Civil
Newly
Copy Quote
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.
Harri Holkeri / Statesman
Civil War
Finland
Finnish
My Generation
Second World War
Visible
Wounds
War World Generation
Civil
Quite A Lot
World War
Copy Quote

Related Statesman Authors

William Cecil, 1St Baron Burghley
Statesman
Monday, Sep 13, 1520
Tuesday, Aug 04, 1598
Thomas Lynch
Statesman
Theramenes
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Solon
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Shang Yang
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Scipio Africanus
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Ricardo Alarcon
Statesman
Friday, May 21, 1937
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Pyrrhus Of Epirus
Statesman
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
Statesman
Thursday, May 31, 1753
Thursday, Oct 31, 1793
Paul Von Hindenburg
Statesman
Saturday, Oct 02, 1847
Thursday, Aug 02, 1934
Otto Von Bismarck
Statesman
Saturday, Apr 01, 1815
Saturday, Jul 30, 1898
Mowaffak Al-Rubaie
Statesman

View All Statesman Quotes

Top Authors

Khalil Gibran
Poet
Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
Friday, Apr 10, 1931
Lucy Larcom
Poet
Friday, Mar 05, 1824
Monday, Apr 17, 1893
Will Rogers
Actor
Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
Thursday, Aug 15, 1935
Saint Augustine
Saint
Saturday, Nov 13, 0354
Wednesday, Aug 28, 0430
Isaac Newton
Physicist
Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
Monday, Mar 31, 1727
Socrates
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914
Kanye West
Songwriter
Wednesday, Jun 08, 1977
Thursday, Jun 04, 2015
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Julius Caesar
Roman Dictator
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Epictetus
Philosopher
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834

View All Authors

Harri Holkeri Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Statesman Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Statesman Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page