Nigel Farage Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Nigel Farage

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

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. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? — Nigel Farage

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

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. — Nigel Farage

I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics. — Nigel Farage

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

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. — Nigel Farage

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed. — Nigel Farage

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

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. — Nigel Farage

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

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

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

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

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP. — Nigel Farage

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

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. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

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? — Nigel Farage

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. — 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

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. — Nigel Farage

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. — 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. — Nigel Farage

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

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

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

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. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

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

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

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. — Nigel Farage

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

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

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. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

No deals with the Tories; it's war. — Nigel Farage

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

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage

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

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

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

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. — Nigel Farage

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free. — Nigel Farage

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

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits? — Nigel Farage

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization. — Nigel Farage

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. — Nigel Farage

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. — Nigel Farage

Angela Merkel in Private is even more miserable than she looks in Public. — Nigel Farage

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