38 Quotes by Mark Rutte

Never waste a crisis.

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

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 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.

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

Leadership does matter.

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

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.

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.