Robert McNamara Quotes

Although we sought to do the right thing—and believed we were doing the right thing—in my judgement, hindsight proves us wrong.

We tend to justify our actions and in a sense we color history to achieve that objective.

We had a two-track approach, one political and the other military, and the military was designed to move us along the political track.

I wondered if I’d ever see another Saturday night.

A test case of US capacity to help a nation meet a Communist ‘war of liberation’.

I don’t object to it being called ‘McNamara’s war’… It is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.