General Quote by Robert McNamara Download Open image “General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!” — Robert McNamara ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare General General Don Horrible Horrible Spasm Kind Peace Plans Spasm Strategy War War Plan War plans
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan. — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In a war zone you know exactly where the threats are coming from. I plan my way in and we plan our way out… — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle. — Richard Grenell 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
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity. — Jason Winston George Copy Share Image
I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity;… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image