Nigel farage quotes

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

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

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.

I've got to see the Brexit process through. We've won the war but we must win the peace.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation, and because of these irrelevant people being demonised by liberal media, I've had to live years, frankly, of being frightened of walking out into the street all because the media picked out these people. And because of these people, attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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