Zitate von Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara
Geburtstag: 9. Juni 1916
Todesdatum: 6. Juli 2009
Robert Strange McNamara war ein US-amerikanischer Manager und Politiker. 1960 wurde er der erste Präsident der Ford Motor Company, der nicht aus der Familie Ford stammte. Er war US-Verteidigungsminister von 1961 bis 1968 und Präsident der Weltbank von 1968 bis 1981.
Zitate Robert McNamara
„You can never substitute emotion for reason.“
Quelle: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
Kontext: 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?
„Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
Lesson #10: Never say never.
Lesson #11: You can't change human nature…“
Robert S. McNamara (2004), Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War, p. 5
„Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.“
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
„I must say 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.“
Quelle: United States. Congress. Senate (1964) Hearings, Vol. 4, p. 177: Of the Vietnam War
„It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.“
Quelle: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55
„Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.“
Quelle: Charles E. Miller (2010) Conscience, Denied, p. 21
