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

- Gijs De Vries

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

- Gijs De Vries

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

- Gijs De Vries

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessaril…

- Gijs De Vries

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

- Gijs De Vries

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

- Gijs De Vries

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train …

- Gijs De Vries

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

- Gijs De Vries

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

- Gijs De Vries