Nigel Farage quotes

Nigel Farage is a British politician, broadcaster, and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). His campaigning played a major role in the movement for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. He remains a highly influential and controversial figure in British and European politics. Here are 76 of his quotes:

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. (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. View quote
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I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics. View quote
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I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP. View quote
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The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round. View quote
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It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the [EU fiscal] treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. View quote
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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. View quote
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I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years. View quote
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The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. (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. View quote
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The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue. View quote
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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. View quote
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We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits? View quote
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And what is the reaction of the British political class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quite think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Perhaps he is considering an alternative career as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics. View quote
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We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich! View quote
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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. View quote
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If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I'll go and live somewhere else. View quote
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We have fought against the multinationals, we have fought against the big merchant banks, we have fought against big politics, we have fought against lies, corruption and deceit, and today honesty, decency and belief in nation, I think now is going to win. And we will have done it without having to fight, without a single bullet being fired. We'd have done it by damned hard work on the ground. View quote
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Well, it's very successful politics, isn't it? You know, we are the turkeys that have voted for Christmas. (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. View quote
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I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet. View quote
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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. View quote
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In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it. View quote
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Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage - Image
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: British Politician
Born: April 3, 1964
Quotes count: 76
Wikipedia: Nigel Farage

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