Top 33 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.