Gijs de Vries Quotes

• You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

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  Heart, Intelligence Services, National Security

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• In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

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  Aquariums, Essentials, Information

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• If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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  Hands, People, Risk

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• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

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  Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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• I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

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  Change, Technology, Inevitable

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• We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

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  Borders, Terrorism, Motivated

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• There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

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  People, World, Links

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• If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

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  Data, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

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• Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

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  People, Police, Doe

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• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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  Tyrants, Democracy, Stronger

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• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

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  Important, Als, Revolution

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• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

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  Surprise, Advantage, Terrorist

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• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

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  Agency, Europe, Borders

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• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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  Definitions, Terrorism, Stills

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• Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

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  Europe, Long, Terrorism

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• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

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  Fighting, Roles, Terrorism

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• The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

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  Believe, Islam, Democracy

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• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

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  Information, Share, Combat

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• It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

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  Important, Force, Moderates

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• Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

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  Europe, Community, Levels

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

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  Fighting, Agency, Police

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• The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

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  Keys, Hands, Community

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• The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

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  Travel, Ideas, Standards

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• We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

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  Terrorism, Vulnerable, Percent

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• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

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  Majority, World, Violent

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