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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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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."
"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"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."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
"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."
"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."
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
"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."
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