Quotes from Nigel Farage

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

Donald Trump believes in nation-state democracy; Hillary Clinton used the E.U. as a prototype for a larger global union. Donald Trump believes in sensible immigration controls.

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

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

Normally, when New York catches a cold, London sneezes.

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

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.

All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.

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.

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

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

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.

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?

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.

Virtually every aspect of our commercial lives have been given away to be run by European project over which we had so little say.

I think I am quite a good listener.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.