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

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

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

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

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.