60 Quotes by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I was the child of refugees.

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.

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.

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.

Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

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.'