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

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.

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.

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

Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.