Quotes About Ellsberg

Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis

documents out of RAND. As Ellsberg wrote in his 2002 book, Secrets, "What I had in my safe at RAND was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

These had explicitly denied that the demilitarized zone (DMZ) was an international border separating two independent states.

Vietnam to defend democracy, and remembers me responding that the Saigon regime was no democracy.