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I was the child of refugees.
Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.
I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.
Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country.
Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.
Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.
It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.
The rights that people have offline must also be protected online.
We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union.
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.
There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.
Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.
When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.
I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.
In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.
When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.
I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.
There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.
The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'
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 veto our joining NATO.
That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.
The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.
If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.
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.
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years.
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.
Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it.
Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working.
The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.'
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?
It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.
The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took.
Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.'
In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin.
When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.
The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.
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.
My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.
Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe.
Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.
Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.
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 military aggression gets everybody nervous.
George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.'
People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.