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. – Harri Holkeri
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries. – Harri Holkeri
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. – Harri Holkeri
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems. – Harri Holkeri
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury