Top 100 Mcnamara Quotes
#1. McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
Morley Safer
#2. When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Samantha Power
#3. In 1976, when eight million Indians were sterilised, Robert McNamara visited the country and congratulated it: 'At long last India is moving effectively to address its population problem.
Matt Ridley
#4. Fort McNamara stood in the Arkansas River Valley near the Indian Territory border, its citizens declaring it to be the last white civilization for hundreds of miles. But civilization was an ironic choice of words for the place as far as Kit was concerned.
Sandra Jones
#5. A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.
-Kevin McNamara
S.L. Whyte
#6. Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
Norman Thomas
#7. When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
Henry A. Kissinger
#8. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell
#9. 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.
Robert McNamara
#10. I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.
Katherine McNamara
#11. Wren, come back, please come back. Don't disappear again. I want you here. Stay here.
Amy McNamara
#13. When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.
Katherine McNamara
#14. I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.
Katherine McNamara
#15. Sometimes we think we know what we want, but we don't actually know what we need until we find it.
Ali McNamara
#16. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#17. I'm lost again, inside myself. Somewhere that's not nowhere. Disoriented. I've let everything go.
Amy McNamara
#18. I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.
William McNamara
#19. Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.
Robert McNamara
#20. Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure
Robert McNamara
#21. The real gift is time. Now. Each other, this night, and the wide, wide moon-silvered sea.
Amy McNamara
#23. There's something very comforting about watching a Hugh Grant movie. You know no one's head will be blown off in the first three minutes, no one will be tortured, and the worst thing that might happen is seeing a lanky Welshman eating mayonnaise in his underpants
Ali McNamara
#25. When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
Katherine McNamara
#26. Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Robert McNamara
#27. At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
Robert McNamara
#30. We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
Robert McNamara
#31. One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Robert McNamara
#32. It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.
Robert McNamara
#33. I'm starting to feel a little like I might fly away. Like everyone else has solid lives, and I'm just a particle, passing through.
Amy McNamara
#35. Implications Move Let's recap. We have reminded the readers as to what our research study was about; we have stated the main findings; and we have offered a plausible interpretation of the results. Our next major task is to explain the implications of the interpretations.
Danielle S. McNamara
#36. It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
Katherine McNamara
#37. I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
Katherine McNamara
#38. The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.
William McNamara
#39. I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.
Katherine McNamara
#40. There are points in time when you grow older than your parents. Or come up on them at least. I look at my father, who's shrinking before my eyes, and realize no one will save me. No one can save me.
Amy McNamara
#41. I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.
Katherine McNamara
#42. Most of my work has been in L.A. or booked in L.A. and shot on location.
Katherine McNamara
#43. Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.
Robert McNamara
#45. General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Robert McNamara
#46. Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be. No explanations necessary. Me. Quiet. Anything more is too risky.
Amy McNamara
#47. That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
Robert McNamara
#48. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.
Shawn M Mcnamara
#49. Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.
Catherine McNamara
#50. In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.
Katherine McNamara
#51. If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.
William McNamara
#52. Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.
William McNamara
#53. My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.
Katherine McNamara
#54. Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
Katherine McNamara
#55. Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.
Amy McNamara
#56. I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
Robert McNamara
#57. It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
Robert McNamara
#58. It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.
Robert McNamara
#59. So this is life. Love. We spend all this time reaching for each other and mostly we end up hurting each other until it's over.
Amy McNamara
#60. One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness
Robert McNamara
#62. We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what ... True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.
William McNamara
#63. I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.
Amy McNamara
#64. Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
Robert McNamara
#68. Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.
William McNamara
#69. There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.
Robert McNamara
#70. Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!
Katherine McNamara
#71. Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
Katherine McNamara
#72. Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
Robert McNamara
#73. I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.
Katherine McNamara
#74. Oh God, my stomach must have won a medal- it's doing a lap of honour now.
Ali McNamara
#75. I'll never stop acting, but music is another passion of mine. I just love creating projects in the entertainment field and performing onstage or in front of a camera.
Katherine McNamara
#76. Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
Katherine McNamara
#77. To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
Robert McNamara
#78. How did I not see it? Pain is everywhere. I'm just another sorry story. All these people wearing smiles, dragging themselves around
do they all know already? Do they realize how fast the world can change?
Amy McNamara
#80. Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.
William McNamara
#81. The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.
Robert McNamara
#82. I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
Robert McNamara
#83. The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
Robert McNamara
#84. I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.
Katherine McNamara
#85. A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
Katherine McNamara
#86. An old friend of mine named Jean fell through a tear in her marriage and landed on her feet.
Catherine McNamara
#87. I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.
Katherine McNamara
#88. Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
Robert McNamara
#90. I see each project as an opportunity to grow as a person and as an actor.
Katherine McNamara
#91. Up on the stage people appeared to be dying left right and centre, and for most of the performance I had quite felt like leaping up there and joining them.
Ali McNamara
#92. I was a kid who would try anything, and I said, 'Sure, I'll try theater - sounds like fun.'
Katherine McNamara
#94. I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.
Amy McNamara
#96. It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.
Amy McNamara
#97. My two best friends, they love amusement parks. They are such roller-coaster daredevils, and they drag me on every single roller coaster they can find. Some of my favorite experiences have been when they've taken me to Disneyland or Six Flags or Universal.
Katherine McNamara
#98. I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.
Robert McNamara
#99. You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.
Amy McNamara
#100. I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.
William McNamara
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