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. Harri Holkeri More Quotes by Harri Holkeri More Quotes From Harri Holkeri In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided. Harri Holkeri has-beens problem divided Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping. Harri Holkeri operations enforcement kind In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results. Harri Holkeri mind order people My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation. Harri Holkeri together facts people You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions. Harri Holkeri yourself you hard easy Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results. Harri Holkeri person own you thinking 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 i-am problems environmental society We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy. Harri Holkeri how political tools philosophy In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. Harri Holkeri boy generation war world