Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Common culture Copy Share Image
When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Country Copy Share Image
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Campaigns Copy Share Image
Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Democracies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Democracy Copy Share Image
Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Entire life Copy Share Image
People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Being Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Father Copy Share Image
The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Emotional Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Day Copy Share Image
Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Country Copy Share Image
I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Country Copy Share Image
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades.… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Anti semitism Copy Share Image
People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Art Copy Share Image
In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Inequality Copy Share Image
Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Army Copy Share Image
Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Internet Copy Share Image
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Hacker Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Democracy Copy Share Image
I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Academia Copy Share Image
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Fake news Copy Share Image
When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Brute force Copy Share Image
