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" Digital society is born when your people refuse to use paper. And in our country, we know that our people refuse to use paper. If you arrive at such a point in your development, you have to make your digital state always secure. "

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" It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services. "

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" We want to be sure that both NATO's territory and NATO soldiers are well protected. We need to make sure that there is the air defense and the air support for these forces in case that is necessary. "

" Everybody has the right to decide their own fate. "

" In Estonia, the Russian minority can move freely, travel freely, work anywhere in Europe. "

" From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories. "

" There are high hopes of France and what they're trying to achieve there by liberalising the labour market and other reforms. You lose some, you gain some. "

" The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people. "

" We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation. "

" Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people cyber hygiene. "

" NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all. "

" I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about. "

" Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card. "

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" Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today. "

" Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life. "

" We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff. "

" Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don't like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country. "

" Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors. "

" Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union. "

" I don't want to sound like I'm a special type of Russia hater. There are very few heads of state in Europe that would not like to have very good relations with Russia. "

" The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through. "

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" People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it. "

" In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system. "

" Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow. "

" Traditionally, nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost all social guarantees dependent on working in one country, every day, every month, and for at least three decades. In creating free movement of people, this web has only got more complex but never disappeared. "

" Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will. "

" I am very worried about politicians who know that their countries are greatly benefiting financially and at the same time are saying that the European Union is not good for us. The message has to be coherent. "

" Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it's much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect. "

" The problem is if Russia is organising exercises - and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about - it creates suspicions as to their objectives. "

" The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics. "

" As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here. "