Dean Rusk

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

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. ”

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