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

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.

Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions.

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.