"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 …"

"Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is d…"

"You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emoti…"

"Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong. Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning. Lesson #9: In …"

"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."

"McNamara became a strong advocate of a Keynesian approach to government, using mathematical models and statistical ap…"

"In early July, Alain Enthoven had arranged for me to have a brief luncheon with McNamara, to discuss my work on the g…"

"McNamara, characteristically, transformed this reliance on irrationality into a new kind of rationality in the afterm…"

"We're also here to ask -- We are here to ask and we're here to ask vehemently, Where are the leaders of our country? …"