Harri Holkeri Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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