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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
![“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)
