We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. – Dean Acheson
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time thats healthy and indeed even creative. But its where – its really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. – Tony Blair