“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.”

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.

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

I’ve got to see the Brexit process through. We’ve won the war but we must win the peace.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.

Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires.

He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.

One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi’I, “My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”