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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.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Father
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" I was the child of refugees. "
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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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Kind
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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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" 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. "
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Architecture
Change
" People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy. "
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Science
People
" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
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You
Big Brother
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" I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. "
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Ever
Young
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" 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. "
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Law
Respect
Country
" The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector. "
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Power
Technology
Innovation
" If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack. "
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Young
School
People
" When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach. "
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Computers
Result
Hacking
" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "
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Identify
Much
Harder
" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "
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Powerful
Army
Diplomacy
" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Country
Little
Boring
" Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Political
Become
Media
" 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
" The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Long
First
Cyber
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Believe
Own
Desire
" The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Rights
Must
People
" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Nothing
More
Loss
" 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
" Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy? "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Democracy
Fake
Face
" Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. "
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Time
Them
Over
" 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. "
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Fake
Done
Say
" Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Thought
Interesting
Life
" 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
" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "
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Country
You
Social
" 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. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Agreement
Up
Run
" Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. "
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Cases
Everything
Known
" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Everyone
Taken
Seriously