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" 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

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" I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.' "

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" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "

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" Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. "

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" The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. "

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" 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

" 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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" 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

" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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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" 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

" 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. "

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" I was the child of refugees. "

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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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

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" When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

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

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "

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

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "

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