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" Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society. "
Jacob K. Javits
Underrated
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" 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. "
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" I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ. "
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