Tom Clancy Quotes

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

"You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears." - Winston Churchill

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots...

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

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

You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.

I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and — like a kid with his toy trains, — except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things... I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

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

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

"Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being who ever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg... that's when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around. Anything that gets information to people is good. America has prospered because we're the most information-friendly society in the world.