Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other.
– Tarja Halonen
Everyone must look beyond short-term national interests. This way we can achieve results that will be visible in our citizens' lives.
– Tarja Halonen
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.
– Tarja Halonen
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
– Tarja Halonen
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.
– Tarja Halonen
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
– Tarja Halonen
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
– Tarja Halonen
We must see our highly-educated, polyglot women as one of Finland's trump cards in an internationalising world.