The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

Rationality will not save us.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

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.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!