DEAN RUSK

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

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

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.

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.

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

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

[On the Vietnam War:] I leave all morality up to you clergymen.

I don't myself, think, sir, that this is likely to lead to a major war.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

[On the Vietnam War:] I leave all morality up to you clergymen.

Who do you think you are, a country?

I don't myself, think, sir, that this is likely to lead to a major war.

President Eduardo Frei’s election was a triumph for democracy achieved partly as a result of the good work of the CIA.

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

The moment we cross over that divide [just before the election making public the secret information that Nixon had been sabotaging Vietnam Peace Talks], we are in a different kind of society.

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

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.

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.

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

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.