Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Over Copy Share Image
Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cases 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
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Campaigns Copy Share Image
We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves European union Copy Share Image
It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cheaper 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 Abroad Copy Share Image
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 Domestic policy 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
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 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
If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Getting older 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
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
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
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
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
The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Architecture Copy Share Image
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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Information Copy Share Image
The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected'… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Aggression Copy Share Image
Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cheap Copy Share Image
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Bruce 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
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Big Copy Share Image
If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Alliances Copy Share Image
Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Alliance Copy Share Image
George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Love Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Estonia 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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves NATO 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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Code Copy Share Image
The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Communication Copy Share Image
Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Democracies 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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Alliance Copy Share Image
That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Computers Copy Share Image
Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
