Robert McNamara Quotes (13 Quotes)
- We bought products off a man who was licensed to sell them. They're telling me that there were certain products he wasn't able to sell. I only bought products that were advertised for sale to everybody.
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- The obvious conflict is the interest of the business over the interest of the patient. A doctor should not be owned by a corporation that can dictate the standards by which he practices. He is making decisions about your health and needs free rein to make the best choices for you.
(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 immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
(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)
- Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
(Robert McNamara)
- Before any substantial commitment to defend India against China is given, we should recognize that in order to carry out that commitment against any substantial Chinese attack we would have to use nuclear weapons.
(Robert McNamara)
- A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
(Robert McNamara)
- Brains are like hearts -- they go where they are appreciated.
(Robert McNamara)
- She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century.
(Robert McNamara)
- Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
(Robert McNamara)
- It was a great time for the whole family.
(Robert McNamara)
- Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
(Robert McNamara)
- One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
(Robert McNamara)
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