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1 " Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his. "
― Jonathan Glover , Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
2 " Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, " What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried " Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened. "
3 " Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "
4 " There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. "
5 " I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust. "