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

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

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

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

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

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

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

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

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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

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

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

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

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

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

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

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.

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