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.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.