Explore Quotes by Robert Mcnamara

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

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

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

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

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

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

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 out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

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