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.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

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

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.

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

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

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.