40 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

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

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

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

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

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

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.

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.