Mcgeorge Quotes

#1. McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.

Robert Dallek

#2. Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

McGeorge Bundy

#3. I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

William Gibson

#4. Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

McGeorge Bundy

#5. Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

McGeorge Bundy

#6. There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

McGeorge Bundy

#7. The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

McGeorge Bundy

#8. Don't fear the thunder

David Guenther

#9. I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Paul Feig

#10. No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.

Emma Jane Holloway

#11. Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

McGeorge Bundy

#12. If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Ken Robinson

#13. Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.

Jonah Goldberg