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 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.

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.

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.

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.