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"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."
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"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."

"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"

"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."

"Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies."

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
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"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."
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