Fuente: The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, documental dirigido por Errol Morris.
Frases célebres de Robert McNamara
En 1979 Robert S. McNamara criticó el hecho de que ha aumentado la cantidad de dinero que las naciones industrializadas gastan en lo militar, pues dijo que en vez de ayudar a la seguridad global la perjudican. Declaró lo anterior, dirigiendo la palabra a un auditorio en la Universidad de Chicago, el entonces presidente del Banco Mundial.
Robert McNamara: Frases en inglés
Fuente: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55
“You can never substitute emotion for reason.”
Fuente: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
Contexto: You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion. They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them knowledge, so they will have more power. Can't they see that?
Robert McNamara (1967); quoted in: Bruce Rich (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development, p. 83
“I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.”
Quoted in: Charles A. Stevenson (2006), SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense http://books.google.com/books?id=2NXbS5AG_8QC&pg=PA28, p. 28
Fuente: United States. Congress. Senate (1964) Hearings, Vol. 4, p. 177: Of the Vietnam War
Robert S. McNamara (2004), Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War, p. 5
Fuente: Charles E. Miller (2010) Conscience, Denied, p. 21