Ezra Klein Quotes
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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.
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The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
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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.
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If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.
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The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
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I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.
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It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.
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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.
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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'.
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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.