Mark Rutte

“Leadership does matter.”

“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.”

“David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.”

“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.”

“באופן תכוף יותר ובמילים קשות יותר מאשימים את היהודים בהולנד בקשר לאירועים בעזה, שלא לצדק! זוהי צורה של אנטישמיות שעלינו להילחם בה בקול ברור. אל תשתקו, אל תסיטו מבט. לאנטישמיות אין מקום בהולנד.”

“אני שונא את הברקזיט מכל הבחינות, אבל הברקזיט הוא החלטה של ​​העם הבריטי ואני לא יכול להגיד שום דבר נגד הדמוקרטיה.”

“אנחנו יודעים מהאימפריה הרומית: אם לא תשמור על גבולותיך החיצוניים, זה תחילת הסוף.”

“יש לי 16 מיליון בוסים.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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