Nigel Farage Quotes

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

I'd say that I'm a pro-European.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

Let's not underestimate the European Union. You know what united Europe? Values. And that's why I am absolutely sure about the unity of the European Union and its solidarity with Ukraine.

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.

If the E.U. is to survive... it is based on the fact that for every community that belongs in Europe, there is a place in Europe.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

Austria can only be strong if we are not just members of the European Union but also actively help to strengthen the European Union.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

Europe is and will be a Union of States.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.