We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

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.

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

There is a very thin line of demarcation dividing true love from unadulterated lust. What is love without the pleasures of the flesh and what is lust sans a fluttering heart?

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

I rather fight for light then to go blind in night.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.