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

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

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.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

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 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.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

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.

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.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.