Nigel Farage Quotes

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

The upward economic movement in America has undoubtedly reached its end – the crisis has come.

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.

We shed blood to take the word 'Grexit' away from the mouth of foreigners, and Syriza is bringing this word back to their mouths.

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.