Top 33 Quotes by Mark Rutte

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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