Robert McNamara Quotes

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

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.

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...

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

I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.

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?