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

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. — Tom Clancy

No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all, — Tom Clancy

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. — Tom Clancy

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written. — Tom Clancy

To Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Won the War. — Tom Clancy

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth — Tom Clancy

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

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

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

never pick up a baby to kiss it," trent said. "they always puke on you, and somebody always gets a picture. always kiss the baby in the mom's arms. — Tom Clancy

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

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

Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think, Greer analyzed. — Tom Clancy

Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man. — Tom Clancy

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

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead. — Tom Clancy

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy

That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. — Tom Clancy

IT WASN'T THAT Moore — Tom Clancy

The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors. — Tom Clancy

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy

The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase — Tom Clancy

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty. — Tom Clancy

I write strictly for fun ... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it. — Tom Clancy

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth. — Tom Clancy

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

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

Success will ruin your life. — Tom Clancy

It is good that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it. — Tom Clancy

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so. — Tom Clancy

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down. — Tom Clancy

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous. — Tom Clancy

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. — Tom Clancy

He had to grow his own NCOs. — Tom Clancy

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization. — Tom Clancy

The first step in accomplishing any goal was deciding that it was possible. — Tom Clancy

You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience - but experience often came from bad decisions. — Tom Clancy

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. — Tom Clancy

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. — Tom Clancy

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. — Tom Clancy

Question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's — Tom Clancy

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school. — Tom Clancy

Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy. — Tom Clancy

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. — Tom Clancy

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? — Tom Clancy

Beware the fury of a patient man — Tom Clancy

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. — Tom Clancy

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud, — Tom Clancy

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town. — Tom Clancy

Can't take him up there for a short haircut." Hallston smiled coldly. "I doubt anyone — Tom Clancy

ambition on a beer budget. — Tom Clancy

Not every story started off big enough to notice. — Tom Clancy

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. — Tom Clancy

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. — Tom Clancy

At this table, a loud voice was just a man venting his stress. A quiet one was far more dangerous. — Tom Clancy

From The World's Strongest Librarian who quotes Tom Clancy: The only way to do all the things you'd like to is to read. — Josh Hanagarne

Only evil of my shadow is my enemy,well die of darkness of life! — Tom Clancy

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head. — Tom Clancy

If the First Toddler wears it, it has to be fashionable. — Tom Clancy

Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! — Tom Clancy

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

Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction. — Tom Clancy

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. — Tom Clancy

I'll indulge you and look at the pictures. — Tom Clancy

Most things in here don't react well to bullets. — Tom Clancy

good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst. — Tom Clancy

I'm a spy ... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business. — Tom Clancy

They were wheels-up in less than fifteen minutes. — Tom Clancy

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

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear. — Tom Clancy

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ — Tom Clancy

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for. — Tom Clancy

Wars are begun by frightened men. — Tom Clancy

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

The tactics ... no, amateurs discuss tactics, ... Professional soldiers study logistics. — Tom Clancy

Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind. The — Tom Clancy

Foster poured some more bourbon for his guest. I don't know what it's — Tom Clancy

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap. — Tom Clancy

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. — Tom Clancy

Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.
[KGB] — Tom Clancy

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds. — Tom Clancy

I inherited curiosity from my Dad. — Tom Clancy

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. — Tom Clancy

A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. — James Rollins

If you don't write it down - " "Then it never happened. — Tom Clancy

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. — Tom Clancy

The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends."

--General Sergey Voloshin — Tom Clancy

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life. — Christopher Buckley

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read — Tom Clancy

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability — Tom Clancy

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. — Tom Clancy

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. — Tom Clancy

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

Under the circumstances, washing without soap wasn't even as good as kissing your sister. — Tom Clancy

Jack ordered a bottle of pinot noir, and they perused the menu while they chatted. "So you were at Georgetown." Melanie said it as a statement. — Tom Clancy

In a toxic, festering sort o' way... — Tom Clancy

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

If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan — Tom Clancy

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