Tarja Halonen Quotations

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

I think we will see some good ideas, but as you have noticed already, the good ideas are difficult sometimes to put in practice,

Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other.

Even during difficult times, he contributed to positive developments in his own country as in the other Baltic states and paved the way for them to come closer to Europe.

I trust our people. But I'm sure that I will be their choice.

Everyone must look beyond short-term national interests. This way we can achieve results that will be visible in our citizens' lives.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.