Nigel Farage

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

— Nigel Farage

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

— Nigel Farage

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

— Nigel Farage

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

— Nigel Farage

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

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That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.

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I have no regrets about being poor.

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Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

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However imperfect Donald Trump may be, -and, my goodness, he is - his mother was Scottish; he owns Turnberry. He spends a lot of time in our country - he loves our country, what we stand for, and our culture.

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But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

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We used to fight for democracy. Democracy used to matter. We now treat it with contempt. We have turned our backs on values that we built up over hundreds of years, for the benefit of politicians in Europe. To me, that is heartbreaking.

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For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.

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I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

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Predictions are a mug's game.

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We seek an amicable divorce from the European Union and its replacement with a genuine free-trade agreement, which is what my parents' generation thought we’d signed up for in the first place.

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I can be impatient. I can be a bit short sometimes. You're nearly always shortest with those who are most important to you.

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I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

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I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.

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And I honestly predict that I mean this. That if we go on doing this to Greece. We will drive that country into a violent revolution.

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Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

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And what is the reaction of the British political class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quite think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Perhaps he is considering an alternative career as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.

— Nigel Farage

All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.

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When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

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Though I've never been a supporter of big government, the reclamation of our fisheries, which, done correctly, would be worth several billion pounds a year, should be a cabinet position with its own department.

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It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the [EU fiscal] treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

— Nigel Farage

Post-Brexit, we got a chance to start all over again with a president in Trump, who is Anglophile. He is pro-British. He knows the things we've shared together over the years - the good and the bad.

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The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

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The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.

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If Spain goes, Europe on its own will not be big enough to save the banks.

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My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.

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The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

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When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

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But do you know that every day there are people that are literally leaving their children at the doors of the Greek Orthodox Church, with notes around their necks saying, ‘We cannot afford to feed or look after these children, please take them from us.’ Can you imagine that?

— Nigel Farage

Whilst there are problems with Article 50, it is the statement of intent that is important.

— Nigel Farage

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

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I'm not for sale.

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I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.

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I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

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The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

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It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

— Nigel Farage

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

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Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy.

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If we are just going to have a fudged referendum on 'do we stay in or go further?' then that's not good enough.

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Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the 'we want our country back, we want our borders back' message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.

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Once again, I challenge the Prime Minister to have an open debate with me on why he believes we must stay part of this failing, corrupt EU. The future of our nation is at stake. Mr Cameron, you have my phone number.

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I've got to see the Brexit process through. we won the war, but we must win the peace.

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We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?

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I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?

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Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

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I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

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I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.

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This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

— Nigel Farage

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

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We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

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I have to say that everybody from David Cameron to half this panel say, "Wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway and Switzerland?" Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self governing.

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I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

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We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

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If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.

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I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

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My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

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If this is the face of Scottish nationalism, it's a pretty ugly nation.

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I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

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Absolutely none. But rather more than the BBC do. We could have had this interview in England a couple of years ago, although I wouldn’t have met with such hatred that I’m getting from your questions, and frankly I’ve had enough of this interview. Goodbye.

— Nigel Farage

Brexit will happen.

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In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.

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People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.

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We have fought against the multinationals, we have fought against the big merchant banks, we have fought against big politics, we have fought against lies, corruption and deceit, and today honesty, decency and belief in nation, I think now is going to win. And we will have done it without having to fight, without a single bullet being fired. We'd have done it by damned hard work on the ground.

— Nigel Farage

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

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[A second referendum is] the last thing I want to see. It's not a game of the best of three.

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It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

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All of us in our lives go through ups and downs and I regret the down that I am in at the moment. But I make this plea, particularly to the media - please leave my wife and children alone. Don't hassle them, don't intimidate them. They don't deserve it and it's simply not fair.

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I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and Australia are in some ways more likely to speak English, understand common law, and have a connection with this country than some people that come perhaps from countries that haven't fully recovered from being behind the Iron Curtain.

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Well, it's very successful politics, isn't it? You know, we are the turkeys that have voted for Christmas.

— Nigel Farage

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

— Nigel Farage

If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I'll go and live somewhere else.

— Nigel Farage

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.

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But if they don't deliver this Brexit that I spent 25 years of my life working for, then I will be forced to don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines.

— Nigel Farage

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

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There are about six million Jewish people living in America, so as a percentage it’s quite small, but in terms of influence it’s quite big. Well in terms of money and influence they are a powerful lobby and America has interfered elections all over the world for decades, there is a degree of hypocrisy. [...] he makes the point that there are powerful foreign lobbies in the US, and the Jewish lobby with its links to the Israeli government is one of those strong voices.

— Nigel Farage

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

— Nigel Farage

The very idea of Tommy Robinson being at the centre of the Brexit debate is too awful to contemplate. And so, with a heavy heart, and after all my years of devotion to the party, I am leaving Ukip today. There is a huge space for a Brexit party in British politics, but it won’t be filled by Ukip.

— Nigel Farage

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

— Nigel Farage

If we don’t leave on October 31, then the scores you’ve seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election, and we are getting ready for it.

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It's a great shame that the head of our established church is not actually prepared to stand up and fight for our Christian culture in this country.

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When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

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The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

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Potentially, I would be very interested in being a shock jock, though Ofcom might be tricky. Some of the American stuff is appalling, wild stuff, crazy conspiracy theories.

— Nigel Farage

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

— Nigel Farage

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

— Nigel Farage

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

— Nigel Farage

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

— Nigel Farage

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

— Nigel Farage

The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.

— Nigel Farage

I go to bed very late and get up very early. If I get five hours, I am very happy.

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There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

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There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've got to get back control of our country.

— Nigel Farage

Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.

— Nigel Farage

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

— Nigel Farage

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

— Nigel Farage

Post-Brexit, we got a chance to start all over again with a president in Trump, who is Anglophile. He is pro-British. He knows the things we've shared together over the years - the good and the bad.

— Nigel Farage

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

— Nigel Farage