Not being American, I don't know how much Ezra Klein is important in politics/media, but he has a page on Wikipedia, so I guess he has nonzero importance.

With this assumption, this is more than just a quote. Quote is just something someone once said or wrote. But this is an example that someone with nonzero importance understands what a mathematical concept means, and can explain it today in a context of political discussion.

Relatively to the usual low levels of the sanity waterline, this is pretty awesome. (Yeah, I wish we instead lived in a world where quotes like this don't deserve attention, but only "man, everybody knows that" reaction.)