Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Cybersecurity 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 Copy Share Image
I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Academia 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
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Internet Copy Share Image
Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the… — 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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Aggression Copy Share Image
I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
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
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
Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Doubt 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 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
If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
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… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Computers 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
In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Fake news 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
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
Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Army 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
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
Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Campaigns Copy Share Image
It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
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
There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Common culture 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
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
![“If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million euros was given by Russia, through a Czech bank, to [French National Front leader] Marine Le Pen. We know that this is not an isolated case. This is happening elsewhere.” quote by Toomas Hendrik Ilves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/toomas-hendrik-ilves-10602_cases_if-you-look-at-the-funding-of-far-right_2315557.jpg)
