Words matter. These are the best Mark Rutte Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
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.
Leadership does matter.
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.
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.
Never waste a crisis.
It’s amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
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.
It shouldn’t be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.
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.
We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.
It’s not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.
Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It’s built on open borders.
I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.
No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.
