top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more People quotes
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
Explore more quotes by Gijs de Vries
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
"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."
bottom of page