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

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.

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

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.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.