Gijs de Vries famous quotes

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.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Military #Rights #Lawlessness

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Europe #Long #Terrorism

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Technology #Inevitable

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

#Hands #People #Risk

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

#Essentials #Information #Limits

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Surprise #Advantage #Terrorist

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

#Heart #National Security #Sovereignty

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Important #Als #Revolution

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Europe #Agency #Borders

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
-- Gijs de Vries

#People #Police #Doe

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Definitions #Terrorism #Stills

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Stronger #Democracy #Tyranny

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Fighting #Roles #Terrorism

We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Terrorism #Vulnerable #Security

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Believe #Islam #Democracy

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Information #Share #Combat

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

#Data #Two Sides #Coins

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

#Important #Force

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

#Europe #Community #Levels

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

#Fighting #Agency #Police

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

#People #World #Links

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Keys #Hands #Community

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.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Ideas #Funny Travel #Standards

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

#Borders #Terrorism #Motivated

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

#Majority #World #Violent