Top 33 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

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

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.