Tom Clancy Quotes

He had to grow his own NCOs.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

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

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

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

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

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

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.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.