Nigel Farage Quotes

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

My first passion is politics.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.

As the Independent Group, we are determined to try to forge a different style of doing politics.

I've always been political.

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I am such a political person.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.