Reid Hoffman Quotes

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Government should steer, not row.

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

Most of the energy devoted to political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

As we seek to improve the management of the federal government, we should keep in mind that the government is not a private corporation. What may make sense for a large corporation may not always make sense for the federal government. In our quest for efficiency, we must not lose sight of the reasons why we enacted certain federal programs in the first place.

The issue isn't more or less government. It's dumb vs. smart government.

The job of government is to govern. They ought to get on with it.

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.