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" Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities make people more independent. Fewer people will work for one company at a time or in the same country all the time. More will work remotely across borders. "

Kersti Kaljulaid

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" We've had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues - Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all. "

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" 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. "

" The E.U. is very popular in Estonia, and for very good reasons - not because Estonia has received considerable support from the E.U., but because Europe supports the values which keep small states safe in this world. "

" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Our main concern will always be security. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment. "

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

" Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be viable. As the industrial workforce shrinks, the social model founded on it will go, too. "

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

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" 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 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. "

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