 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. |
| Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. |
| We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters. |
| It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. |
| Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. |
| Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. |
| Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. |
| Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. |
| The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. |
| The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. |
| We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. |
| In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. |
| The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. |
| Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise. |
| If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. |
| I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. |
