Dean Rusk Quotes

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.