Ezra Klein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A government shutdown, it isn`t the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.
-- Ezra Klein

#Government #World #Ends
Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.
-- Ezra Klein

#Government #Ideas #Fundamentals
You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.
-- Ezra Klein

#Country #Usa #Immigration
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.
-- Ezra Klein

#Party #Government #Corporations
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, itâ€™s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
-- Ezra Klein

#Army #Government #Looks
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,
-- Ezra Klein

#Belief #Individual #Congress
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.
-- Ezra Klein

#Self #Inspire #Triumph
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.
-- Ezra Klein

#College #Men #Practice
We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.
-- Ezra Klein

#Technology #Culture #Journalism
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.
-- Ezra Klein

#Fall #Moving #Problem
Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.
-- Ezra Klein

#Gun #Talking #Mourning

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