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"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."
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"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
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"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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"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
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
Intelligence
"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."
Home
"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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"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
Politics
"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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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
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"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
Information
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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