Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk
David Dean Ruskwas the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Rusk is the joint-second-longest serving U.S. Secretary of State of all time, behind only Cordell Hull and tied with William H. Seward...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1909
CityCherokee County, GA
CountryUnited States of America
evil people half
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
fellow
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
fellow
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
change pay firsts
If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
war thinking cuban-missile-crisis
We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.
air doe situation
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
life advice way
The best way to persuade is with your ears.
giving cows milk
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks
peace world matter
The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.
rights citizens georgia
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.
mean two 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.
moving sight pace
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.
appeasement aggressive aggressors
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.
time two people
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.