72 Quotes by Robert McNamara

There is no longer such a thing as strategy; there is only crisis management.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

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

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

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

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

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.

She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century.