Tom Clancy Quotes

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

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

Clifford Rutledge II was the perfect diplomat. He believed in little beyond his own career, some vague notions of international amity, and his personal ability to make it come about and to avoid war through the sheer force of his brilliance.

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.

Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.
[KGB]

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

The more information a guy has, the more likely he is to say, "Hey, King Charlie, you really blew that call." That's why democracy happened. The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people had this annoying way of remembering them. And even if they didn't, there were journalists and political rivals never passed on a chance to make the necessary reminders.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.