Source: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55
Robert McNamara: Citations en anglais
“You can never substitute emotion for reason.”
Source: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
Contexte: 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
Source: 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
Source: Charles E. Miller (2010) Conscience, Denied, p. 21