Five Quote by Robert McNamara

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

[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

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

— Robert McNamara

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

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

— Robert McNamara

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

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

— Robert McNamara

Yeah, yeah, that's right. And I'd rather be damned if I don't.

— Robert McNamara

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

Lesson 2: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

— Robert McNamara

...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

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