McGeorge Bundy

“There is no safety in unlimited technological development.”

“A special relationship with the United States is available to any country that is prepared to take us seriously.”

“Ample reassurance can be gained from the fact that we are not being stampeded into war.”

“There are two sorts of losers in a nuclear exchange: the dead and the survivors.”

“The business of the president is to be president.”

“I had a part in a great failure.”

“A policy of sustained reprisal against North Vietnam will run escalating risks.”

“What I told the president was that I couldn't see my way through to a successful outcome.”

“The bomb does not discriminate. It will kill the good as well as the bad, the beautiful as well as the ugly.”

“Press on, and look for a break.”