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"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well."

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

"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."

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

"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."

"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."

"That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor."

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
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