Tarja Halonen Quotations

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

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.

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

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

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

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.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

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

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.