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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. "

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

" Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters. "

" We still lack a global definition of terrorism. "

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

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