Top quotes by 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. Votes: 24

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. Votes: 20

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. Votes: 19

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. Votes: 16

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Votes: 16

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. Votes: 16

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. Votes: 15

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. Votes: 14

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish. Votes: 14

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free. Votes: 11

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. Votes: 11

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. Votes: 11

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? Votes: 9

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. Votes: 9

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in. Votes: 9

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. Votes: 7

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. Votes: 7

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. Votes: 6

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue. Votes: 6

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving 拢50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain. Votes: 6

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round. Votes: 5

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. Votes: 5

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it? Votes: 2

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization. Votes: 1

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. Votes: 0

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household. Votes: 0

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet. Votes: 0

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. Votes: 0

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that. Votes: 0

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? Votes: 0

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed. Votes: 0

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders. Votes: 0

No deals with the Tories; it's war. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo. Votes: 0

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits? Votes: 0

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming. Votes: 0

We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister. Votes: 0

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich! Votes: 0

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics. Votes: 0