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

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida’s most important objective – to trigger revolutions.

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

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

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

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

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

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.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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