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"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."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
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"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
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"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."
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"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
Fear
"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
Travel
"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
Politics
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
Information
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
People
"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."
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