Top 33 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

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.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

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.

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.

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.