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"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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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."
"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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