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

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

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.

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

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

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.