"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."

"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."

"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."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

"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."

"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."

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

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"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."

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