Robert McNamara Quotes

• In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

  Robert McNamara

  Order, Evil, May

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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

  Robert McNamara

  Empresa, Importante, Gestión

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• The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Vietnam, Succeed

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• 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 I, were behaving as war criminals.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Thinking, Criminals

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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• Quiero decir, y esto es muy importante: al final tuvimos suerte. Fue la suerte lo que evitó la guerra nuclear. Estuvimos tan cerca de la guerra nuclear al final. Individuos racionales: Kennedy era racional; Khrushchev era racional; Castro era racional. Individuos racionales estuvieron tan cerca de la destrucción total de sus sociedades. Y ese peligro existe hoy en día.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Luck, Important

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

  Robert McNamara

  Mean, Birth Rate, Population

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• Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

  Robert McNamara

  Wish, Answers

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

  Robert McNamara

  Shapes, Given, Foreign Policy

  "Rumsfeld Makes McNamara Look Good" by Maureen Dowd, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2011.

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• I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Race, Evil

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• The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

  Robert McNamara

  Issues, Trying, World

  "McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam" by R. W. APPLE JR., www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Poor Planning

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• To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

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  War, Drug, World

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• There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

  Robert McNamara

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• We see what we want to believe.

  Robert McNamara

  Creer, Querer

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• Rationality will not save us.

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Rationality

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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

  Robert McNamara

  Nuclear, Weapons, Call Of Duty

  Robert S. McNamara (1992). “The Changing Nature of Global Security and Its Impact on South Asia”

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• At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Age, Trying

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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• There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

  Robert McNamara

  Way, Increase, Rate

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• Aparte de la propia guerra nuclear, el crecimiento demográfico es el problema más grave al que se enfrenta el mundo. Si no actuamos, el problema se resolverá con hambrunas, disturbios, insurrecciones y guerras.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Issues, Growth

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• Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

  Robert McNamara

  Love, Leadership, Broken Heart

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• Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

  Robert McNamara

  Cuba

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• 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

  War, Winning, Thinking

  Robert Mcnamara (2017). “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam”, p.118, Vintage

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

  Robert McNamara

  Mistake, Nuclear, Weapons

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

  Robert McNamara

  Nihilism, Belief, Seeing

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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• General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

  Robert McNamara

  Paz, Guerra, Amabilidad

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