Mcgeorge Quotes & Sayings

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military. — McGeorge Bundy

Okay, enough self-pity. I'm not doomed. Things will just be harder than planned. I have all I need to survive. — Andy Weir

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

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. — Christopher Fry

It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action. — McGeorge Bundy

Something was bleeding ... and something was broken. It was my heart ... because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne) — Kimberly Brockman

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again. — Terry Pratchett

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence. — Victor J. Stenger

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky

I know where I'm going, but I know I might not be able to get there. But it really does not matter, cause I really do not have to go anywhere. — Phillip Lo

The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now. — Ted Gup

In April 1962, McGeorge Bundy - the former Harvard dean and now national security adviser to President Kennedy - had Oppenheimer invited to a White House dinner honoring forty-nine Nobel laureates. At this gala affair, Oppie rubbed elbows with such other luminaries as the poet Robert Frost, the astronaut John Glenn and the writer Norman Cousins. Everyone laughed when Kennedy quipped, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Afterwards, — Kai Bird

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

Molly was a helluva nice girl, but her fried eggs looked like broiled assholes. — Stephen King

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. — McGeorge Bundy

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

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

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

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure. — Peter Drucker

On November 26, 1963, President Johnson had signed National Security
Action Memorandum, 273, which was in diametrical opposition to JFK's
NSAM 263. While Kennedy's body was still warm in his grave when LBJ's
signature changed future US direction in Vietnam, NSAM 273 had, incredibly
enough, actually been drafted on November 21, 1963, while Kennedy was
still alive. The memo was written by National Security Advisor McGeorge
Bundy (more on him later). Why would such a memo have been created,
when it contradicted JFK's policy and certainly would not have been signed
by him? LBJ let it be known early on that he wanted to "win" in Vietnam,
and had no intention of following Kennedy's plans to withdraw completely
by 1965. — Donald Jeffries

The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found. — Jackson Browne

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea. — Brigham Young