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.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

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.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

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.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.