Gijs de Vries

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

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.

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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.