Nigel Farage Quotes

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.