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" I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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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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People
Thinking
" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "
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Rational
Stubborn
Emotional
" 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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Agreement
Up
Run
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Justify
Practice
Travel
" It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Work
Past
Reading
" 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.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Reading
Father
New
" The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Long
Own
Norms
" The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Rights
Must
People
" The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Fake
Done
Say
" When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Law
Respect
Country
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Day
Writing
My Life
" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Country
You
Social
" Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Democracy
Transfer
Power
" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Identify
Much
Harder
" Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Time
Them
Over
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Up
Digital
Will
" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
You
Big Brother
Brother
" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Powerful
Army
Diplomacy
" 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.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Said
Steel
You
" The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
People
Architecture
Change
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Minds
Image
Few
" My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Education
Better
You
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Communication
Information
Everything
" Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Fear
Information
People
" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Liberal
Kind
Governance
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Understand
Afraid
Mean
" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Everyone
Taken
Seriously
" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "
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Fake
Journalism
News
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Country
Technology
Island
" 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.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Dog
Best
Picture