Mark Rutte Quotes

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Mark Rutte

Profession : Politician

Birth : February 14, 1967

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Leadership does matter.

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The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.

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I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

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

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I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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