Mark Rutte Quotes
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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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Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
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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 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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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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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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It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
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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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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.
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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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Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.
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Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.
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Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.
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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.
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We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
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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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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.
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David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
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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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Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
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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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It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.
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Never waste a crisis.