Top 172 Quotes & Sayings by Nigel Farage - Page 2

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.

I'd love to tell you that everyone who voted Brexit felt like me about the country, about the Union Jack and the cricket team. But I don't think that there's as much romanticism in it, perhaps, as people think.

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

Donald Trump believes in nation-state democracy; Hillary Clinton used the E.U. as a prototype for a larger global union. Donald Trump believes in sensible immigration controls.

Normally, when New York catches a cold, London sneezes.

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

Brexit will happen.

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.

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

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

Predictions are a mug's game.

We've been very lucky to have UKIP in the U.K. If we hadn't been here, the BNP would be doing very well.

I have no regrets about being poor.

I have known several of the Trump team for years, and I am in a good position with the President-elect's support to help.

For whatever reason, Trump likes my story, likes what I've done. He trusts me.

We have good and bad archbishops.

I don't drive smart cars; I don't go on fancy holidays. All my money has gone on my kids' education.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

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

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

I think the employer should be much freer to make decisions on who she or he employs.

I did not endorse Trump, because I had condemned President Obama for telling us what to do in our referendum. But I did say that if I was a U.S. citizen, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton even if she paid me.

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

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.

I'm quite good at bringing people together.

I think that, given that some people feel very embarrassed by it, it isn't too difficult to breastfeed a baby in a way that's not openly ostentatious.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Although I never wanted Theresa May to be our Prime Minister, I had been prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt.

My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.

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?

Virtually every aspect of our commercial lives have been given away to be run by European project over which we had so little say.

Do we look horrendous when people don't work together? Oh, God, yes. If the leave campaign is not prepared to show that it's big enough and ugly enough to put aside party differences in the interests of this great cause, then it has a great problem.

The only people to whom myself and the immigration issue is toxic are to the well-heeled committed Remain voters, the sort of people who live in the Hannan and Carswell world.

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.

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

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

There are little games that go on in politics.

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

Brexit was the first brick that was knocked out of the establishment wall.

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

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

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.

There are a lot of great people in UKIP.

Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.

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.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I believe that the ability to talk to people and have them feeling engaged rather than patronised isn't something you can learn. It's a bit like being able to sing or play cricket. You can either do it, or you can't.

In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

I spent 17 years inside an institution trying to effectively destroy it; can you imagine how popular I am in Brussels? I am the most hated figure that's ever been in that place. Every time I get up to speak, hundreds of people boo and jeer.