Tom Clancy Quotes

THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC WILL ENDURE UNTIL THE DAY CONGRESS DISCOVERS THAT IT CAN BRIBE THE PUBLIC WITH THE PUBLIC’S MONEY — ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

"She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl"

Visto despuès, podría parecer un modo extraño de empezar una guerra. Solo uno de los implicados sabía de lo que de verdad sucedía, y por casualidad

A wise man knows his limitations.’ And a bold one seizes opportunities.

It is estimated that nearly half a billion people tune in for China Central Television’s seven p.m. news hour. The fact that all local stations in China are ordered by government mandate to carry the program likely has much to do with this high number, but frequent announcements that the president would be making an important national address this evening ensured even higher ratings than normal.

The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.

These are our kids... They're good kids... Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country... Those are our kids... They're our kids.

I wanted a different way in which to tell my stories. Coming up with concepts for computer games gives me another avenue of creative expression. It's not just me telling the story, it's me designing the idea for a story and letting the players write their own ending.

Tradition is important,” Evans said. “For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It’s more than just yourself, more than just your mates — but it’s not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true — or should be true — of any professional community.

If you want to tell me I'm a bum, that's okay.

The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.

You have to know the things you don’t know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.