MARK RUTTE

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.

Never waste a crisis.

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

Leadership does matter.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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