Top 77 Nigel Farage Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We have good and bad archbishops.

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

I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.

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

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.

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don’t listen to music. I don’t watch television, I don’t read.

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.

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

There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

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

I’ve stood down as UKIP leader. I’m not responsible for these people anymore.

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

It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I’m being absolutely serious about that.

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?

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

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.

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

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We’ve subsidised it for 40 years.

It’s amazing how ideas start out, isn’t it?

If you take away people’s identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don’t be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.

I like to think I’ve changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.

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.

I’m quite good at bringing people together.

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.

We shouldn’t measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in’s easy.

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.

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

That Obama creature – loathsome individual – he couldn’t stand our country.

I’m the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich, and ruined our countries. I couldn’t be happier.

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

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?

I have no regrets about being poor.

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.

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you… Are we the same? Good lord, no! That’s why Europe’s fun – it’s fun because it’s different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same – it’s ghastly.

Predictions are a mug’s game.

It’s a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

There are little games that go on in politics.

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

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.

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.