Dean Rusk Quotes (12 Quotes)

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.

The world is round. Only one-third of the human beings on earth are asleep at any one time, and two-thirds are awake and up to some mischief.

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

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears- By listening to them.

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

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

I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated.

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.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies. I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it, ... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

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