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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.