WEBVTT 00:00:13.983 --> 00:00:15.317 Chairman, Ministers. 00:00:15.652 --> 00:00:17.945 Today I've repeatedly heard how 00:00:18.071 --> 00:00:20.322 irrelevant my department has become. 00:00:20.573 --> 00:00:22.533 Why do we need agents? The Double-O section? 00:00:22.659 --> 00:00:24.660 Isn't it all rather quaint? 00:00:26.496 --> 00:00:29.289 Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do. 00:00:30.834 --> 00:00:34.002 And the truth is that what I see frightens me. 00:00:35.964 --> 00:00:39.800 I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. 00:00:40.427 --> 00:00:42.219 They do not exist on a map. 00:00:42.303 --> 00:00:44.805 They're not nations. They are individuals. 00:00:48.059 --> 00:00:49.643 Look around you. Who do you fear? 00:00:50.812 --> 00:00:53.522 Can you see a face? A uniform? A flag? No. 00:00:54.858 --> 00:00:57.025 Our world is not more transparent now. 00:00:57.193 --> 00:00:58.819 It's more opaque. 00:00:59.112 --> 00:01:00.529 It's in the shadows. 00:01:02.031 --> 00:01:04.032 That's where we must do battle. 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:08.120 So, before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves, 00:01:09.539 --> 00:01:11.999 how safe do you feel? 00:01:16.379 --> 00:01:18.297 I've just one more thing to say. 00:01:18.715 --> 00:01:21.383 My late husband was a great lover of poetry. 00:01:21.634 --> 00:01:22.968 And, um. . . 00:01:23.636 --> 00:01:27.389 I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. 00:01:28.224 --> 00:01:32.561 And here today I remember this, I think from Tennyson: 00:01:35.023 --> 00:01:38.233 "We are not now that strength, 00:01:38.485 --> 00:01:41.236 "which in old days Moved earth and heaven; 00:01:42.655 --> 00:01:44.907 "That which we are, we are; 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:48.744 "One equal temper of heroic hearts, 00:01:49.370 --> 00:01:52.080 "Made weak by time 00:01:52.499 --> 00:01:53.916 "and fate, 00:01:54.751 --> 00:01:56.752 "but strong in will 00:01:57.253 --> 00:01:59.046 "To strive, to seek, 00:01:59.881 --> 00:02:01.381 "to find 00:02:01.674 --> 00:02:03.717 "and not to yield."