Tom Clancy Quotes

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

In a toxic, festering sort o' way...

I was one of the first generations to watch television. That's technology. TV is like any other kind of tool. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one-way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with.

never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

There's been historical conflict between China and Russia for well over 1,000 years. … People forget that the Mongols came all the way to the Baltic Sea and all the way to where St. Petersburg is today … And the Russians have a good sense of history and they remember that.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

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

I don't discuss works in progress...

Back then "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary America — but in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

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.

To Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Won the War.

China has a lot of people and not enough space and the Russians have not too many people and a lot of space.