Quotes from Nigel Farage

In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.

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

I spent 17 years inside an institution trying to effectively destroy it; can you imagine how popular I am in Brussels? I am the most hated figure that's ever been in that place. Every time I get up to speak, hundreds of people boo and jeer.

We used to fight for democracy. Democracy used to matter. We now treat it with contempt. We have turned our backs on values that we built up over hundreds of years, for the benefit of politicians in Europe. To me, that is heartbreaking.

The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.

Do we look horrendous when people don't work together? Oh, God, yes. If the leave campaign is not prepared to show that it's big enough and ugly enough to put aside party differences in the interests of this great cause, then it has a great problem.

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

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

I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and Australia are in some ways more likely to speak English, understand common law, and have a connection with this country than some people that come perhaps from countries that haven't fully recovered from being behind the Iron Curtain.

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.

UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

For whatever reason, Trump likes my story, likes what I've done. He trusts me.

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.

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.

I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

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.

It's a great shame that the head of our established church is not actually prepared to stand up and fight for our Christian culture in this country.

I can be impatient. I can be a bit short sometimes. You're nearly always shortest with those who are most important to you.