The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
About Dean Rusk
David Dean Ruskwas the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early 1950s, as well as the head of a leading foundation.
More quotes from Dean Rusk
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
The best way to persuade people is with your ears – by listening to them.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
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.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
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.
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)