Ezra Klein Quotes

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.

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

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.

If it’s cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we’re all building to help us understand these campaigns.

Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

I don’t trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

My career wouldn’t exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

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’.

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.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

We’re actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.