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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

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

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

— Rand 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