Tom Clancy Quotes

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

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

I’ll indulge you and look at the pictures.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

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.

We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water,

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

The military has always been a very introspective organization... One of the reasons why the army is so progressive is its always examining itself. The army is always looking for better ways to do its job.

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

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

"The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. The more information available to the average person, the greater the synergy that develops from it.

The average guy is fairly smart, if you give him the ability to make decisions for himself. That's the whole premise of America, and that's why America has prospered, and it prospers because if the average guy can get information, he can make his own decisions.