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" I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that. "

Nigel Farage

Life

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Only

Agree

" I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. "

" Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance. "

" I'm quite good at bringing people together. "

" Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise. "

" Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. "

" I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels. "

" I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates. "

Nigel Farage

Changed

Gravity

" My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright. "

" Virtually every aspect of our commercial lives have been given away to be run by European project over which we had so little say. "

" There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've got to get back control of our country. "

" The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation? "

" Potentially, I would be very interested in being a shock jock, though Ofcom might be tricky. Some of the American stuff is appalling, wild stuff, crazy conspiracy theories. "

" There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it. "

" Only by working together, as a broad coalition, can the Leave side win. "

" The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP. "

" No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me. "

Nigel Farage

Britain

" There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down. "

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" How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week. "

" Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy. "

" I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. "

" Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. "

" I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump. "

Nigel Farage

People

Jump