“Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.”

In Britain, what we’ve done is say to 485 million people, ‘You can all come, every one of you. You’re unemployed? You’ve got a criminal record? Please come. You’ve got 19 children? Please come.’ We’ve lost any sense of perspective on this.

I’m not for sale, neither is UKIP.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

You know, I hear all these things about women’s rights.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.

We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!

If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won’t bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.

I am delighted at Des’s support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I’ve known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.

You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.