Quotes by 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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Life

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

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom

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

— Nigel Farage

Wisdom