--- title: "2 Tamar Jacoby Quotes - Famous Journalist" description: "Tamar Jacoby is the director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project. Browse 2 Tamar Jacoby quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b059/author-tamar-jacoby-108458.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Tamar Jacoby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b059/author-tamar-jacoby-108458.jpg) # Tamar Jacoby (1954) Journalist **2** quotes in **20** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Tamar Jacoby is a journalist. ## Quick Facts About Tamar Jacoby Born January 1, 1954 Profession Journalist Notable works WORK IN PROGRESS: MIGRATION, INTEGRATION AND THE EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET; ED. BY HELEN DISNEY ## About Tamar Jacoby Tamar Jacoby is the director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project. The Kyiv-based project is devoted to reporting on the war between Russia and Ukraine, and related political and policy developments in Brussels and Washington, D.C.. Jacoby was formerly president of Opportunity America, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization working to promote economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans. Before that, she was president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small business owners working to advance immigration reform. A former journalist and author, Jacoby was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek, and the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page. ## Quotes by Tamar Jacoby > [This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamar-jacoby/this-is-like-the-gun-you-shoot-at-the-beginning-of-the-race-or-the/) Tamar Jacoby [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/tamar-jacoby-108458_behinds_this-is-like-the-gun-you-shoot-at-the-be_939865.jpg) > [Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamar-jacoby/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-clear-set-of-choices-that-people-made/) Tamar Jacoby [Choice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb1/tamar-jacoby-108458_choice_once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-clear-set-o_3082374.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamar-jacoby/#itemlist", "name": "Tamar Jacoby Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. 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