Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

I stand with everyone who is sick of hearing about Washington cutting insider deals to their friends in business, politicians failing on their promises to fight increases in government spending, and more costly and complicated rules from Washington that make everyone's lives harder.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man. I am truly sick of Congress.

We all have to pay when powerful members of Congress work to bring home the bacon.

The President is going around the country handing out so much pork that the Agriculture Department is going to have to station a meat inspector on board Air Force One.

In much of the democratic world, citizens lack any confidence that politicians, political parties, or government officials are serving anyone other than themselves.

We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.

The only accountability-free zone in America: Washington DC.

It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.