I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises. -Dean Rusk

 

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Dean Rusk quotes in our collection. Dean Rusk is known for saying 'I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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

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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. -Dean Rusk
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I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated.

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