Top 50 Nigel Farage Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Nigel Farage

2. “I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.”

— Nigel Farage

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

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

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5. “No deals with the Tories; it’s war.”

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

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7. “The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg – and there simply aren’t enough lifeboats to go round.”

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8. “We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?”

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

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

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

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12. “It’s amazing how ideas start out, isn’t it?”

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

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

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15. “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.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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?”

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18. “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.”

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

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20. “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.”

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

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22. “I’m not for sale, neither is UKIP.”

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23. “You have the charisma of a damp rag, and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, that we’re all going to ask, is “Who are you?” I’d never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.”

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24. “You know, I hear all these things about women’s rights.”

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25. “If there’s labour shortages, we issue work permits. It’s as simple as that.”

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26. “We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!”

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

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

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

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30. “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.”

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

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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.”

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

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37. “I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.”

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

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39. “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.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

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

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

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45. “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.”

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46. “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.”

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

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48. “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.”

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49. “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.”

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

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