Tom Clancy Quotes

There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.

So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.

The Soviet Union is dead and gone and replaced by the Russian Federation, which is a country we can be friends with now, thank God — and we want the Russians to prosper, and should help the Russians prosper in every way we can within reason.

I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. … It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,

the only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.

"One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

the motto of the whole intelligence community: ‘We bet your life.