The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

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.

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

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.