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."

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

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

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

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.