43 Quotes by Kersti Kaljulaid

Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are making sure that our Russian-speaking minority feels comfortable and involved in this country.

NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.

Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it's much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect.

My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment.

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

I don't know of any problems countries in Europe are facing - environment, infrastructure, markets, market development, the fifth freedom being digital freedom, border security, terrorism, migration - that can be better solved alone.