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
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
The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
