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.

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

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

I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.