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Kersti Kaljulaid Quotes

born 1969

Kersti Kaljulaid (born 30 December 1969) served as the fifth President of Estonia from 2016 to 2021. She was Estonia's first female president.

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Since economic agents are often concerned with profit lines and not ethics, it can be the case that if something gets banned, another avenue is found to restore it.

A freedom in retreat somewhere would make freedom less secure everywhere.

Brookings Institution Speech (2019)

In a simplistic and absolute world, people ask but two things – that we find a solution to global problems and, if we can't, that we at least make it so that they don't affect them.

We do not repeat our ironclad commitment to Article 5 in order to convince our Allies. We repeat it to convince others, so that they would not miscalculate.

Brookings Institution Speech (2019)

We can write laws about how to become an Estonian citizen, but not how to become a part of the Estonian nation. If we were to attempt it, we would turn into a totalitarian society and destroy our freedoms in the name of preserving our customs.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kersti Kaljulaid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.