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

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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" 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. "

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" I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO. "

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" In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin. "

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" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "

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

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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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" 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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" Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. "

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

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" There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "

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" I was the child of refugees. "

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" We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. "

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

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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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" In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit. "

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" I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24. "

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" That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers. "

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