Quotes from Nigel Farage

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

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.

I believe that the ability to talk to people and have them feeling engaged rather than patronised isn't something you can learn. It's a bit like being able to sing or play cricket. You can either do it, or you can't.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

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

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?

Predictions are a mug's game.

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.

Whilst there are problems with Article 50, it is the statement of intent that is important.

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

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

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

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

Potentially, I would be very interested in being a shock jock, though Ofcom might be tricky. Some of the American stuff is appalling, wild stuff, crazy conspiracy theories.

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

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

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