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Nigel Farage
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“I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to criticism of an anti-euro advertisement which showed Adolf Hitler promoting the single currency - Hitler anti-euro ad condemned, CNN, 3 July 2002.
“We seek an amicable divorce from the European Union and its replacement with a genuine free-trade agreement, which is what my parents' generation thought we’d signed up for in the first place.”
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Recorded in: In UKIP news (issue 56), July 2004.
“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. [...] I can speak on behalf of the majority of British people in saying that we don't know you, we don't want you, and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better.”
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“I have no doubt that your intention is to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of European nation states.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a speech in the European Parliament (24 February 2010), as cited in "Ukip's Nigel Farage tells Van Rompuy: You have the charisma of a damp rag", The Guardian (25 February 2010).
“I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.”
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Recorded in: Upon being fined €2,980 for "inappropriate behaviour" towards Herman Van Rompuy, then EU President, "Nigel Farage fined for verbal attack on EU president", The Guardian (2 March 2010).
“And I honestly predict that I mean this. That if we go on doing this to Greece. We will drive that country into a violent revolution.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Segment of a speech, held in a UKIP meeting on 21 February 2012. When Nigel Farage spoke about the austerity measures impleted into Greece - Greece being destroyed by EU fanatical ideology
“And what is the reaction of the British political class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quite think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Perhaps he is considering an alternative career as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.”
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Recorded in: Another segment of a speech held in a UKIP meeting on 21 February 2012. When Nigel Farage explains on the reactions on Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem politicians on the failing Euro currency - Nigel Farage met Angel M…
“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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Recorded in: Speech in the European Parliament, 9 May 2012. Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution
“It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the [EU fiscal] treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.”
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Recorded in: Interview in the Irish Times newspaper, 17 May 2012. Anti-treaty campaign claims single currency may collapse
“The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.”
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Recorded in: Segment from an article in the New York Times newspaper, 18 May 2012. Can Europe be saved? Should it?
“If Spain goes, Europe on its own will not be big enough to save the banks.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown
“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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Recorded in: Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown
“But do you know that every day there are people that are literally leaving their children at the doors of the Greek Orthodox Church, with notes around their necks saying, ‘We cannot afford to feed or look after these children, please take them from us.’ Can you imagine that?”
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Recorded in: Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown
“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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Recorded in: Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown
“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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Recorded in: Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown
“The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.”
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Recorded in: Segment from a speech held in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 13 June 2012. The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness - Nigel Farage
“[EU leaders] are not undemocratic. They are anti-democratic. These are very bad and dangerous people. They are the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945.”
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Recorded in: In an appearance on RT (29 June 2012), as cited in Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason "Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny" The Guardian (31 March 2014)
“If we are just going to have a fudged referendum on 'do we stay in or go further?' then that's not good enough.”
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Recorded in: Segment from a BBC News interview, 2 July 2012. Farage: 'Fudged referendum on EU is no good'
“Once again, I challenge the Prime Minister to have an open debate with me on why he believes we must stay part of this failing, corrupt EU. The future of our nation is at stake. Mr Cameron, you have my phone number.”
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Recorded in: Quote by Nigel Farage on an article written by himself in the Telegraph, 6 July 2012. The time will never be right for David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU.
“[On his aircraft accident during the 2010 general election campaign] I survived a bloody crash [...] I have more vigor and vim and gusto then I ever had before. I’m also an inch shorter.”
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“I'm not really a politician [..] I’m actually a businessman. I supported Margaret Thatcher, I believed in Ronald Reagan, I believe in free markets, I believe in small government, enterprise, hard work, and I believe in a taxation system that doesn’t punish those who do well in life.”
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Recorded in: At an event in a Manhattan club, as cited in "Less Europe" The New Yorker (15 October 2012)
“Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.”
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Recorded in: Quote by Nigel Farage on an article in the Zimbabwe Independent, regarding the EU winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 October 2012. Nobel Peace Prize really deserves a new name.
“I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.”
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Recorded in: Quote by Nigel Farage on rumours that the Conservative party should have a pact with UKIP, 27 November 2012. Nigel Farage: 'I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP'
“The opening of the doors on January 1, 2014, to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue next year.”
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Recorded in: As cited in "Farage seizes threat of new mass migration to widen UKIP’s appeal", The Times (22 December 2012).
“I have to say that everybody from David Cameron to half this panel say, "Wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway and Switzerland?" Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self governing.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking on BBC Question Time in Lincoln, 17 January 2013.
“[Any changes Mr Cameron could obtain from Brussels would be cosmetic and the UK risks becoming] a province of a United States of Europe”
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Recorded in: 'Strong case' for EU referendum, says Hague BBC News (20 January 2013)
“Winning this referendum, if and when it comes, is not going to be an easy thing but I feel that UKIP's real job starts today,”
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Recorded in: David Cameron promises in/out referendum on EU BBC News (23 January 2013)
“We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to David Cameron's speech on Britain's relationship with the European Union, 23 January 2013 - Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech.
“I was asked last week if UKIP would have been necessary if Mrs Thatcher had not been overthrown before the Maastricht treaty. Had she still been in power in 1992 there would have been a referendum on that treaty, and the need for UKIP would probably never have arisen.”
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Recorded in: What Thatcher would do today about ... Europe", The Times (15 April 2013).
“If this is the face of Scottish nationalism, it's a pretty ugly nation.”
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Recorded in: Hitting back at pro-Scottish independence protesters, after an incident at an Edinburgh pub - Nigel Farage blasts 'fascist' nationalists after Edinburgh confrontation, 17 May 2013.
“Absolutely none. But rather more than the BBC do. We could have had this interview in England a couple of years ago, although I wouldn’t have met with such hatred that I’m getting from your questions, and frankly I’ve had enough of this interview. Goodbye.”
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Recorded in: During a phone call on BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio show (regarding the incident in Edinburgh), in which an angry Nigel Farage hung up after stating that the interview was unpleasant and offensive, 17 May 2013 - 'S…
“I want friendship, co-operation and trade (with the EU). I don't want to be part of a political union.”
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Recorded in: EU referendum: MPs call for public to have their say BBC News (5 July 2013)
“[Asked for the leader he held in the greatest respect] As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say [[Vladimir Putin|[Vladimir] Putin]].”
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“The way he played the whole Syria thing. Brilliant. Not that I approve of him politically. How many journalists in jail now?”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview in GQ magazine, as cited in "UK anti-EU party head admires Putin for 'brilliant' Syria policy" Reuters (31 March 2014)
“[Responding to criticism of his comments in the GQ interview] I said it just after parliament had voted not to go to war in Syria, thank God. One of the things Putin said did actually change the debate in this country … I did make it perfectly clear. It depends what it means by the word … I said I don't like him, I wouldn't trust him and I wouldn't want to live in his country, but compared with the kids who run foreign policy in this country, I've more respect for him than our lot.”
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Recorded in: In a discussion at Chatham House, London, as cited in "Nigel Farage: I have more respect for Putin than for 'kids' who run Britain" The Guardian (31 March 2014)
“When I said yes to these debates I thought you would honestly make the pro-EU case. By saying 7% of our laws are made in Brussels, you are wilfully lying to the British people about the extent to which we have given control of our country and our democracy and I am really shocked and surprised you would do that.”
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Recorded in: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in heated BBC debate over EU BBC News (3 April 2014)
“[immigration is] good for the rich because it's cheaper nannies and cheaper chauffeurs and cheaper gardeners but it's bad news for ordinary Britons... it has left the white working class effectively as an underclass, and I think that is a disaster for our society”
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Recorded in: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in heated BBC debate over EU BBC News (3 April 2014)
“I want the EU to end but I want it to end democratically. If it doesn't end democratically I'm afraid it will end very unpleasantly.”
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Recorded in: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in heated BBC debate over EU BBC News (3 April 2014)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Nigel Farage attacked over Romanians 'slur' BBC News (18 May 2014)
“today we are rushing through, at undue speed, an Association Agreement with the Ukraine, and as we speak there are NATO soldiers engaged in military exercises in the Ukraine. Have we taken leave of our senses? Do we actually want to have a war with Putin? Because if we do, we are certainly going about it the right way.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the European Parliament (16 September 2014)
“The Labour Party hate the concept of Englishness. They have done for a very long time. New Labour can't even stand the concept of patriotism. They think the flag somehow is unpleasant, backward-looking and nasty. People like Emily Thornberry would rather we had that blue flag with 12 stars on it that comes to us from Brussels.”
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Recorded in: Miliband: Thornberry's 'white van, flag' tweet lacked respect BBC News (21 November 2014)
“Of course we're good enough. Switzerland has negotiated more global free-trade agreements than we have, without being part of the European Union, and Iceland, with a population of 300,000 people has signed its own tariff-free deal with China.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Election 2015: UK good enough to go it alone - Farage BBC News (25 April 2015)
“A couple of times I've been stuck on the motorway and surrounded by swarms of potential migrants to Britain and once, even, they tried the back door of the car to see whether they could get in.”
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Recorded in: David Cameron criticised over migrant 'swarm' language BBC News (30 July 2015)
“There's not much point in having a United Kingdom if we're governed from somewhere else. We may as well become a satellite state of the European Union because that's virtually what we are. Our courts aren't supreme. Our parliaments aren't supreme, whether that's in Holyrood or in Westminster. This is not about Scotland's relationship with Westminster. This is about whether Scotland wants to be part of an independent UK.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scottish Lib Dem conference: Leader Tim Farron in staunch defence of EU BBC News (27 February 2016)
“In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.”
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Recorded in: From an interview with the Mirror, as cited in "Nigel Farage: Narrow Remain win may lead to second referendum", BBC News (17 May 2016)
“I think it's legitimate to say that if people feel they have lost control completely — and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the EU — if people feel that voting doesn't change anything, then violence is the next step. [...] I find it difficult to contemplate it happening here, but nothing's impossible.”
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Recorded in: BBC interview (18 May 2016), as cited in "Nigel Farage shows shades of Enoch Powell, says Chuka Umunna", The Guardian (18 May 2016).
“We are being sold that this is all about trade and that the single market is soft and cuddly and lovely like a baby puppy. But actually it is a smokescreen for the real, simply proposition of this referendum. It's actually rather simple: do you wish us to be a self-governing, independent, democratic nation or part of a bigger, broader, European Union?”
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Recorded in: Immigration focus is turning point in EU campaign, says Farage BBC News (3 June 2016)
“No deal is better than the rotten deal that we have at the moment”
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Recorded in: ITV debate: Farage and Cameron face EU questions BBC News (8 June 2016)
“[Brexit] will be a victory for ordinary people, for decent people.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: David Cameron to quit after UK votes to leave EU BBC News (24 June 2016)
“Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom.”
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Recorded in: Leave campaign ahead in UK's EU referendum vote BBC News (24 June 2016)