Top 172 Quotes & Sayings by Nigel Farage
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.
I'm not for sale.
No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.
Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.
I think I am quite a good listener.
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.
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
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.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.
I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
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.
When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that.
UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.
I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
Hopefully, through all aspects of life, you learn from things you've got right, things you've got wrong, but I'm not one for looking back. I'm looking ahead; you've got to.
Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.
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.
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.
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.
Whatever my faults, I have some principles.
I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.
It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.
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.
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.
That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.
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.
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
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.
There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.
I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.
I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich, and ruined our countries. I couldn't be happier.
I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.
I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
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.
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
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.
I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.
If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.
The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.
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.
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.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
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