Quotes by Toomas Hendrik Ilves - Page 2

In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Inequality
No Brainer
Rich People
Russia
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As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Littles
Racism
Wings
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The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Decades
Department
Fake
News
Ukraine
Warfare
Well Done
Complain
Russians
Fake News
State Department
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The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Documents
Federation
Homeland
Instant
Justify
Protected
Abroad
Current
Distributed
Ethnic
Russian
Tool
Unacceptable
Whereby
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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 all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Data
Metaphor
Purposes
Regarding
Stored
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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.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Europe
Marine
Party
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When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Democratic Country
Estonia
Human Rights
Rule Of Law
Sovereignty
Characterized
Half Century
Occupations
Soviets
Successive
Totalitarian
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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 importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Technology
Information
Information Technology
Innovation
Online
Parking
Public Sector
Tax Returns
Voting
Tax
Cabinet
Public
Examples
Power Technology Information
Extensive
Importantly
Intensive
Returns
Sector
Services
Transformative
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In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Legal
Fake
Germany
Lawmakers
Nationalism
Obvious
Populist
Attuned
Dangers
Europeans
Fake News
Liberal
Measures
Proposed
Suit
Threatens
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The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Architecture
Borders
Charter
Refined
Russia
Soviet
Soviet Union
Change World People
Entire World
Signed
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I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.'
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Boots
Colleagues
Cowboy
Supporter
Accent
American Accent
Assumed
Current
Surprised
Whoever
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Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Banking
Consciousness
Estonia
Hackers
News Media
Overload
Warfare
Attacks
Definition
Distributed
Reached
Via
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In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Technology
Attacking
Banking
Cyberspace
Defense
Erase
Halt
Irrelevant
Military
Records
Ruined
Sophisticated
Bringing
Possible
Simply
Forces
No Country
Paralyze
Rendered
Systems
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