Gijs de Vries

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

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

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

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.