One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness
Robert McNamaraNever answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
Robert McNamaraManagement is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.
Robert McNamaraI would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
Robert McNamaraThe '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.
Robert McNamara