“I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.”

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

There’s unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

It’s about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can’t find work. It’s about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.

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.

We do have, I’m sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we’re going to have to be a lot braver… in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

While we’re members of the European Union, we don’t have an immigration policy. We can’t have an immigration policy. It’s a charade for people to pretend we do.

No deals with the Tories; it’s war.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

It’s amazing how ideas start out, isn’t it?

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Why go with the majority when you can find your own direction?

Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.