29 Quotes by Dean Rusk

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

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

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

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.

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

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

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

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

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.