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Robert McNamara
7 quotes
“I must say 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 (1916–2009) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: United States. Congress. Senate (1964) Hearings, Vol. 4, p. 177: Of the Vietnam War
“Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert McNamara (1967); quoted in: Bruce Rich (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development, p. 83
“You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion. They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them knowledge, so they will have more power. Can't they see that?”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
“It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55
“Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong. Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning. Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil. Lesson #10: Never say never. Lesson #11: You can't change human nature...”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert S. McNamara (2004), Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War, p. 5
“I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Charles A. Stevenson (2006), SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense, p. 28
“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.”
Robert McNamara (1916–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Charles E. Miller (2010) Conscience, Denied, p. 21