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

- Dean Rusk

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

- Dean Rusk

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

- 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.

- Dean Rusk

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

- Dean Rusk

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.

- Dean Rusk

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

- Dean Rusk

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 …

- Dean Rusk

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

- Dean Rusk