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Letter "D" » Dean Acheson Quotes
«The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
Secretary of State
«I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| About:
Feelings
| Keywords:
apprehensive, charmer, charmers, Indian, JFK, snake, snake charmer
«Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
aircraft, sealing, self-sealing
«The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.»
«Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| Keywords:
binding, Chinese, deformities, deformity
«The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.»
«It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.»
«When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, the portraits of George Marshall, but especially Dean Acheson.»
«I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.»
«The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.»
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