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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.