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1. "When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government." ~ Jacob K. Javits
2. "I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ." ~ Jacob K. Javits
3. "It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal." ~ Jacob K. Javits
4. "My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian." ~ Jacob K. Javits
5. "There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency." ~ Jacob K. Javits
6. "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." ~ Jacob K. Javits
7. "I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career." ~ Jacob K. Javits

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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night."
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