40 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

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

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

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

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

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

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