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Mark Rutte [1967-0] Dutch

Rank: 103
Politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who has been the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 14 October 2010, and the Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 31 May 2006.

Politics

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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.		101
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.	Politics	102
Never waste a crisis.		103
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.		104
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.		105
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.		106
We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.		107
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.		108
Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.		109
It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.		110
Leadership does matter.		111
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.		112
No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.		113
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.		114
Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.		115
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.		116
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.		117
Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.		118
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.		119
Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.		120
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.		121
England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.		122
David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.		123
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.		124
This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.		125
Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.		204
It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.		205
I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.		206
Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.		207

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