Counterproductive Quote by Felix Dennis

I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of…

— Sharron Angle

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the…

— Anonymous

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does…

— Joseph Stalin

The Republicans cry for smaller government; however, it seems that at every turn, they work at interfering with the lives of Americans, and we…

— Deb Haaland

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

When people say they don't want a nanny state, they are, in fact, in a conflicted state of mind. On the one hand, they…

— Lee Hsien Loong

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

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

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

“The nation is divided, roughly half-and-half, between people who instinctively resent the Nanny State, and those who instinctively long for its ministrations.”

— David Warren