1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,617 Chairman, Ministers. 2 00:00:15,952 --> 00:00:18,245 Today I've repeatedly heard how 3 00:00:18,271 --> 00:00:20,622 irrelevant my department has become. 4 00:00:20,633 --> 00:00:23,413 Why do we need agents? The Double-O section? 5 00:00:23,419 --> 00:00:25,150 Isn't it all rather quaint? 6 00:00:26,796 --> 00:00:29,589 Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do. 7 00:00:31,134 --> 00:00:34,302 And the truth is that what I see frightens me. 8 00:00:36,264 --> 00:00:40,100 I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. 9 00:00:40,727 --> 00:00:42,519 They do not exist on a map. 10 00:00:42,603 --> 00:00:46,655 They're not nations. They are individuals. 11 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:50,273 Look around you. Who do you fear? 12 00:00:51,112 --> 00:00:54,002 Can you see a face? A uniform? A flag? No. 13 00:00:55,158 --> 00:00:57,325 Our world is not more transparent now. 14 00:00:57,493 --> 00:00:59,119 It's more opaque. 15 00:00:59,412 --> 00:01:00,999 It's in the shadows. 16 00:01:02,331 --> 00:01:04,331 That's where we must do battle. 17 00:01:05,459 --> 00:01:08,420 So, before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves, 18 00:01:09,839 --> 00:01:12,299 how safe do you feel? 19 00:01:16,679 --> 00:01:18,597 I've just one more thing to say. 20 00:01:19,015 --> 00:01:21,683 My late husband was a great lover of poetry. 21 00:01:21,934 --> 00:01:23,268 And, um. . . 22 00:01:23,936 --> 00:01:27,689 I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. 23 00:01:28,524 --> 00:01:32,861 And here today I remember this, I think from Tennyson: 24 00:01:35,323 --> 00:01:38,533 "We are not now that strength, 25 00:01:38,785 --> 00:01:41,536 "which in old days Moved earth and heaven; 26 00:01:42,955 --> 00:01:45,207 "That which we are, we are; 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,044 "One equal temper of heroic hearts, 28 00:01:49,670 --> 00:01:56,630 "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will 29 00:01:57,553 --> 00:01:59,346 "To strive, to seek, 30 00:02:00,181 --> 00:02:04,341 "to find and not to yield."