Top 172 Quotes & Sayings by Nigel Farage - Page 3

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

UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

How can any government arrange sensible healthcare provision for citizens when the migratory flow is so large, with absolutely no power or control over the quantity coming in every year?

Only by working together, as a broad coalition, can the Leave side win.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

The Leave side can only win if we have an effective ground campaign comprising of activists from across the political spectrum working together.

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.

The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum.

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

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

America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.

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.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

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

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

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

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.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

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

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

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

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

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

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

It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation, and because of these irrelevant people being demonised by liberal media, I've had to live years, frankly, of being frightened of walking out into the street all because the media picked out these people. And because of these people, attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name.

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

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

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.

In Britain, we have an open door to half a billion people. We still retain the ability to decide who comes from the rest of the world. But we've effectively shut down the rest of the world because 4,000 people a week are coming from the E.U.

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

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

While we're members of the European Union, we don't have an immigration policy. We can't have an immigration policy. It's a charade for people to pretend we do.

We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

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

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.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.

There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

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

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.

We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.