All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions!… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war.… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
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… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Lesson 2: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
...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… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
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