Nigel Farage Quotes

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

I don't believe in populism.

It's a very beautiful word, populism. I'm proud to be a populist.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

The United States is a very difficult country to govern.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

It appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

There is nothing wrong with this country that a good election can’t fix.

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each case, they overreached, and regular folks took back their government.

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

I believe in the two-party system.

Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.