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. Wikipedia
Zitate Robert McNamara
„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
„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
„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
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