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" Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "

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" Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. "

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" I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. "

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" Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it. "

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" Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe. "

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" The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.' "

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" The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression. "

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" In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer. "

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" George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.' "

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" Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous. "

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" I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.' "

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" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "

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" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "

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" I was the child of refugees. "

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" I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. "

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" Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. "

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" There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing. "

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" The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole. "

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" People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something. "

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" When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. "

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" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "

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" The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. "

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" I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. "

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" In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island. "

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" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "

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" The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years. "

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" The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run. "

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" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "

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" Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century. "

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