Mark Rutte Quotes

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.

Leadership does matter.

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.

David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.

This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.

I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.

England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.

It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.

Never waste a crisis.

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.

No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.

The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.