Never waste a crisis.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
Leadership does matter.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.
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.
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.
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.
Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
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.
It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
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 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.
We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.
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.
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.
