Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Dean Rusk, fully David Dean Rusk

American United States Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them."

"The art of policy is knowing when to act, how to act, through whom to act, with what tools to act, and for what purposes to act."

"The major power facing bureaucracy is not the struggle for power but the evasion of responsibility; bureaucrats are very reluctant to take action."