Nigel Farage Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.