Ezra Klein Quotes & Sayings

“My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.”

“If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.”

“When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.”

“I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.”

“When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll say there is that we've learned a lot from 'KnowMore'.”

“Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.”

“One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.”

“People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.”

“When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.”

“It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.”