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.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

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.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.