Nigel Farage Quotes

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

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

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.

Angela Merkel in Private is even more miserable than she looks in Public.

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

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.

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.

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

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

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

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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