Quotes from Mark Rutte

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

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

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.

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

Never waste a crisis.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.