Jacob K. Javits Quotes

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.