Ezra Klein Quotes

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Ezra Klein

• Remember
• Young
• Old

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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• True
• News
• Wikipedia

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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• Power
• System
• Washington

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

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• Idiot
• Traffic
• Exulting

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

Ezra Klein

• Relationship
• Health care
• Policies

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

Ezra Klein

• Problem
• Idea
• Internet

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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• People
• Conversation
• Reporting

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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• Job
• Want
• Advice

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'.

Ezra Klein

• Talk
• Experiment
• 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.

Ezra Klein

• Job
• Service
• Stories