One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with grea…

- Jacob K. Javits

My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into t…

- Jacob K. Javits

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

- Jacob K. Javits

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

- Jacob K. Javits

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

- Jacob K. Javits

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

- Jacob K. Javits

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

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

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

- Jacob K. Javits