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The commitment of government ...

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

That's one of the major lesso...

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

I formed the hypothesis that ...

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

One solitary God-centered, Go...

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

It was a perfectly beautiful ...

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

Elimination of nuclear weapon...

Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

One must take draconian measu...

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

Poor planning or poor executi...

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

...but highly placed sources ...

...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

Management is the gate throug...

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

[General Curtis] LeMay recogn...

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

They'll be no learning period...

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

I don't object to its being c...

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

At my age, 85, I'm at age whe...

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

All the evidence of history s...

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

Coercion, after all, merely ca...

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

We burned to death 100,000 Jap...

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

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To this day we seem to act in ...

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

It is true that at the time [1...

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

General, you don't have a war ...

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Robert McNamara 51 quotes

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