Dean Rusk Quotes

• We looked into the mouth of the cannon, the Russians flinched.

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• Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer news-it is what is going to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

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• Since the earliest days of our frontier irreverence has been one of the signs of our affection.

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• Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

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

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• One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

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

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

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

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Dean Rusk (14)

Birth:	9th February, 1909
Death:	20th December, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

David Dean Rusk was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Rusk is the second-longest serving U.S. Secretary of State of all time, behind only Cordell Hull.

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