Top 33 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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

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

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

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

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

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

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

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.