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"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
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"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."

"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."

"You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen."

"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."

"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."

"One right decision doth not a great president make."

"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."

"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."

"And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures."
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"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."

"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."

"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."

"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."

"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"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."

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

"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."
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