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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.
— Robert McNamara
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Robert McNamara
banker, politician, writer, economist, military personnel
1916 – 2009
Robert Strange McNamara was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
All Quotes by Robert McNamara
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Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.
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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?
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It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
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Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong.Lesson #11: You can't change human nature...
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I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.
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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.
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Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Robert McNamara