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Nigel Farage
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“Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day.”
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Recorded in: Leave campaign ahead in UK's EU referendum vote BBC News (24 June 2016)
“We have fought against the multinationals, we have fought against the big merchant banks, we have fought against big politics, we have fought against lies, corruption and deceit, and today honesty, decency and belief in nation, I think now is going to win. And we will have done it without having to fight, without a single bullet being fired. We'd have done it by damned hard work on the ground.”
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Recorded in: Celebrating the Brexit referendum (24 June 2016)
“[A second referendum is] the last thing I want to see. It's not a game of the best of three.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed by the Mirror after the EU referendum result, commenting on the petition to the UK Parliament for a second referendum (25 June 2016)
“All of us in our lives go through ups and downs and I regret the down that I am in at the moment. But I make this plea, particularly to the media - please leave my wife and children alone. Don't hassle them, don't intimidate them. They don't deserve it and it's simply not fair.”
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Recorded in: On his separation from his second wife, 7 February 2017
“Well, it's very successful politics, isn't it? You know, we are the turkeys that have voted for Christmas.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4, 1 March 2017
“If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I'll go and live somewhere else.”
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Recorded in: Responding to a caller's question on his talk radio show, LBC, 27 March 2017
“It was always monstrous that she should be judged in the image of her father – an accusation many still make today. I wonder whether, had her surname not been "Le Pen", she might now be ahead in the polls. There is nothing she has said in this entire election campaign that I find unreasonable or extreme.”
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“[T]he time has come for me to get off the fence and say that I do want to see Marine Le Pen win on Sunday. She would make a good leader of France and is the right candidate for Brexit Britain.”
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Recorded in: I'm supporting Marine Le Pen, and if she fails this year, she will win in 2022", The Telegraph (3 May 2017)
“But if they don't deliver this Brexit that I spent 25 years of my life working for, then I will be forced to don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines.”
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Recorded in: Speaking at an event in Southampton (14 May 2017), as cited in "Nigel Farage would 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit is not delivered", The Independent (18 May 2017).
“There are about six million Jewish people living in America, so as a percentage it’s quite small, but in terms of influence it’s quite big. Well in terms of money and influence they are a powerful lobby and America has interfered elections all over the world for decades, there is a degree of hypocrisy. [...] he makes the point that there are powerful foreign lobbies in the US, and the Jewish lobby with its links to the Israeli government is one of those strong voices.”
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Recorded in: Remarks during a discussion on LBC radio station about whether Russian influence had really helped Mr Trump be elected cited in The Independent (1 November 2017)
“We have nothing to fear and that is the reason why we should only accept a clean and clear Brexit, not some fudge.”
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Recorded in: No-deal Brexit 'no problem', Nigel Farage says at Leave Means Leave rally BBC News (22 September 2018).
“Gerard Batten has got this sort of fixation with Tommy Robinson and discussing Islam, and dragging Ukip in a direction of effectively being sort of a street activist party right at the moment when we have a betrayal of Brexit going on by both the Conservative and Labour parties, where Ukip's got potential reach out among the electorate, the highest it's ever been. [...] It goes against all the things I did as leader to say we will talk about immigration, we will talk about the extreme forms of Islam [and] we'll do it as a non-racist, non-sectarian party. This blows a hole in all of that.”
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“He [Batten] doesn't have the support of the party to do this. Even a poll of party members shows that his issues are very low down on our list of priorities, so I'm going to fight, try and save it [Ukip], but if it continues in this direction, electorally it is finished.”
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Recorded in: As cited in "Ukip returns to infighting after Tommy Robinson appointment", The Guardian (23 November 2018).
“The very idea of Tommy Robinson being at the centre of the Brexit debate is too awful to contemplate. And so, with a heavy heart, and after all my years of devotion to the party, I am leaving Ukip today. There is a huge space for a Brexit party in British politics, but it won't be filled by Ukip.”
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Recorded in: With a heavy heart, I am leaving Ukip. It is not the Brexit party our nation so badly needs", The Telegraph (4 December 2018).
“Belgium is not a nation!”
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Recorded in: Debate on the future of Europe with the primeminister of Belgium, Charles Michel (3 May 2018).
“If we don’t leave on October 31, then the scores you’ve seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election, and we are getting ready for it.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Brexit Party's performance in the 2019 elections for European Parliament, 26 May 2019
“A Johnson government committed to doing the right thing and The Brexit Party working in tandem would be unstoppable.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: No deal 'only acceptable' way to leave EU, says Nigel Farage BBC News (27 August 2019)
“The withdrawal agreement is not Brexit. It is a betrayal of what 17.4 million people voted for. If you insist on the withdrawal agreement, Mr Johnson, we will fight you in every seat up and down the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: No deal 'only acceptable' way to leave EU, says Nigel Farage BBC News (27 August 2019)
“[O]nce Brexit is done, we will take the knife [to] overpaid pen-pushers in Whitehall.”
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Recorded in: From a speech in Newport, Gwent, Wales (21 September 2019), as cited in "No police action over Farage vow to 'take knife' to Whitehall", The Guardian (28 September 2019).
“When you get it out of the fridge it’s really appetising and delicious for a few days, but after a couple of weeks it stinks and is inedible.”
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Recorded in: On Boris Johnson's deal with the EU, comparing it to cheese. Nigel Farage says he will not stand for MP in general election The Guardian (3 November 2019)
“Do I find a seat to try get myself into parliament or do I serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the United Kingdom supporting 600 candidates, and I've decided the latter course is the right one.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show, as cited in "Nigel Farage's threat to Boris Johnson: Here are my 600 candidates", The Scotsman (4 November 2019)
“I hope this begins the end of this project. It is a bad project. It isn’t just undemocratic, it is antidemocratic. It puts in that front row, it gives people power without unaccountability. People who cannot be held to account by the electorate and that is an unacceptable structure.”
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“What a nonsense, sadly said under parliamentary privilege. I had two small appearance fees back then, well under £5,000 [in 2016 and 2017]. Not appeared since. [...] I didn't do anything with RT in 2018.”
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Recorded in: Speaking to the PA news agency, as cited in "Nigel Farage dismisses Labour MP Chris Bryant's claims over payments from the Russian state" The National (15 March 2022)
“What Brexit has proved, I'm afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were. We have mismanaged this totally and if you look at simple things, simple things such as takeovers, such as corporation tax, we are driving business away from our country. Arguably, now we are back in control, we are regulating our own businesses even more than they were as EU members. Brexit has failed.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed on the BBC's Newsnight (15 May 2023), as cited in "Nigel Farage says 'Brexit has failed' because of 'useless' Tory politicians" The Telegraph (16 May 2023).
“We could have got it down to 50,000. If they put me in charge of it we would have got to 50,000 a year, no question about it, but they didn't.”
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“They have ignored what was said in that Brexit referendum and so now a bigger question emerges as to how we are going to change politics in this country.”
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“I wasn't in charge. Had we been a European country with proportional representation, I would have been in a position of authority to work with Government to try and achieve this.”
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Recorded in: In a podcast with Beth Rigby of Sky News, as cited in "Nigel Farage claims net migration would have fallen to 50,000 if he was ‘in charge’ after Brexit" Evening Standard (26 May 2023)
“The truth is I've never received any money from any sources with any link to Russia.”
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Recorded in: From a six-minute recording on Twitter (29 June 2023), as cited in "Nigel Farage claims his bank accounts have been closed 'without explanation'" Sky News (30 June 2023)
“[These comments from Nigel Farage are not attributed to the Twitter video in the source] I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. It has certainly made me think — what does this mean for me [...] No one has told me why and the only thing I can think of are the completely false claims made against me using parliamentary privilege.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "Nigel Farage’s bank accounts closed without warning" The Times (30 June 2023)
“I did 23 nights in that jungle. And it changed me. I've come out a completely different person [...] Because I am not afraid of anything now.”
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“[D]o I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?”
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Recorded in: From an interview with Decca Aitkenhead, as cited in "Nigel Farage: 'The Tories are desperate. They want to know what I'll do'", The Sunday Times (11 February 2024).
“I think if you ask Tory party members right now they'd vote for me to be leader and not Rishi Sunak.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on The World at One (BBC Radio 4, 16 February 2024), as cited in "Tory members would choose me as leader, says Nigel Farage", BBC News (16 February 2024)
“The banking sector, now full of idiots, people are promoted not because of ability, but ethnicity or gender ... The white male – you lot – are going to feel the world's against you. Andrew Tate tapped into that. You're going to feel the world's against you, you're going to feel resentful and angry ... These are massive cultural battles.”
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Recorded in: From a podcast interview on Strike It Big (February 2024), as cited by Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn in "Farage said Andrew Tate was 'important voice' for men in podcast interview", The Guardian (20 June 2024)
“There is no Conservative party, it does not exist. Oh, their members are conservative and patriotic, their voters are conservative and patriotic. Their parliamentary party is not. We have Jacob Rees-Mogg. There are others – like Liz Truss and Mark Francois – who have views similar to me. They are a tiny minority.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on his GB News programme (14 May 2024), as cited in "Could Farage save the Tory right?", The Spectator (15 May 2024)
“[Could he end up leading the main parliamentary opposition within five years?] It's possible. It never was before, but it's possible now.”
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“The most poisonous thing that ever happened to Ukip was getting lots of former Tory MPs to join the party and bringing with them their way of doing politics, which is constant warfare and back-stabbing.”
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Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Nigel Farage: 'Will I be leader of the opposition in five years? It's possible'", The Times (7 June 2024)
“The Prime Minister has campaigned so woefully that I believe that we are now approaching a tipping point as voters realise that the general election is effectively over. Labour has won. The Conservatives will be in opposition, but not the Opposition. In their place, Reform UK now intends to be that voice of opposition in parliament and the country.”
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Recorded in: Mark my words: Reform will be the next opposition, then government awaits", The Telegraph (8 June 2024)
“I can only apologise that not all of our candidates have been to Eton, to Oxford, not all of our candidates are part of the London set.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on LBC (13 June 2024), as cited in "Nigel Farage defends Reform UK candidates who are 'friends' with fascist", The Times (13 June 2024).
“Have we had trouble with one or two candidates? Yes, we have. We paid a large sum of money to a well-known vetting company, and they didn't do the work. We have been stitched up politically, and that's given us problems. And I accept that and I'm sorry for that.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on LBC (18 June 2024), as cited in "Nigel Farage blames 'establishment stitch up' for failing to vet Reform candidates", Evening Standard (18 June 2024).
“The race thing is even worse. The idea we should give people jobs according to how suntanned they are, the colour of their skin.”
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“A guy who's my producer at GB News is half Indian. I'm darker than he is!”
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Recorded in: From a Your Round podcast interview (broadcast June 2024), as cited by Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn in "Farage said Andrew Tate was 'important voice' for men in podcast interview", The Guardian (20 June 2024)
“I don't want racism or sectarianism in my party and we will be sorting out candidate selection [...] We do not want to have this problem again. If we had got 25 we wouldn't have been entirely sure who or what we got. But we have five very solid, sensible people who will be able to really push on and make the case for Reform. There will be no embarrassments and we have the foothold we needed.”
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Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Farage does not want ‘Tory poison’ in his party as he plans Reform’s path to power", The Independent (6 July 2024)
“We absolutely endorse (Sir Lindsay) entirely for this job. And it is, I must say, in marked contrast to the little man that was there before you and besmirched the office so dreadfully in doing his best to overturn the biggest democratic result in the history of the country. We support you Sir, fully.”
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Recorded in: On the re-election of Sir Lindsay Hoyle in Farage's Commons maiden speech (9 July 2024), as cited in Claudia Savage "Farage hails Reform as ‘new kids on the block’ as leaders thank Speaker", Evening Standard (9 July 202…
“Well, I may not necessarily be the best advocate for [monogamous] heterosexuality and or stable marriage, having been divorced twice. But do I think family matters.”
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“[Reasoning why he had returned to the role of party leader] And I came up with three words: "family, community and country". They're the things that matter to me about absolutely everything. I have tried, in difficult circumstances, to make sure with both ex-wives that our children have had a stable upbringing, given the circumstances, as they can possibly have.”
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“Of course we need higher birth rates, but we're not going to get higher birth rates in this country until we can get some sense of optimism.”
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Recorded in: At the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, as cited in "Nigel Farage and Jordan Peterson in conversation", The Spectator (18 February 2025)
“Suddenly, here in America – after November 5 – there’s optimism, there's an upbeat mood, the beginning of a golden age. And it's all because of one totally extraordinary individual.”
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“[The Establishment] put Donald J. Trump through: years of endless court cases, media abuse, harassment of his family, debanking by financial institutions, and assassination attempts. Yet he has come through it all braver, stronger, and wiser. In my experience, he is simply the bravest man I know. We should all applaud him.”
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Recorded in: Speaking at CPAC (21 February 2025), as cited in "Trump’s legendary comeback has laid the ground for a Reform victory", The Telegraph (22 February 2025)
“At the time I was alleged to have made these remarks, one of your most popular weekly shows was the Black and White Minstrel Show. The BBC was very happy to use blackface - not just in the Black and White Minstrels, they did it in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.”
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“I cannot put up with the double standards of the BBC about what I'm alleged to have said 49 years ago and what you were putting out on mainstream content. So I want an apology from the BBC for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 80s.”
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Recorded in: At a press conference (4 December 2025), as cited in "Farage accuses BBC of double standards after racism allegations", BBC News (4 December 2025).