I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are…

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great…

— Ed Crane

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

— Lee Kuan Yew

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until…

— Ron Paul

We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave…

— Anonymous

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net…

— John Howard

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

— Jonah Goldberg

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

— Bill O'Reilly

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

— Thomas Sowell

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot…

— John Stossel

Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only…

— Van Jones

I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about…

— Christopher Fowler

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

— David Harsanyi

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and…

— Michele Bachmann

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with…

— Felix Dennis

We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children,…

— Nicky Morgan