Top 33 Quotes by Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

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

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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

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

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