Quotes by Tom Clancy

“I inherited curiosity from my Dad.”

“He had to grow his own NCOs.”

“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.”

“To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was t...”

“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.”

“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 th...”

“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.”

“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”