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"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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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

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

"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."

"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."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

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

"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."

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