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. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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, Estonia, in… — 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 again the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. — 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 anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
