Tom Clancy

“The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.”

— Tom Clancy

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are.…

— Tom Clancy

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go…

— Tom Clancy

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed…

— Tom Clancy

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

— Tom Clancy

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

— Tom Clancy

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author…

— Tom Clancy

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

— Tom Clancy

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase…

— Tom Clancy

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

— Tom Clancy

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

— Tom Clancy

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

— Tom Clancy

“The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,…

— 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

“The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of…

— Tom Clancy

“Brian had been killed the year before on a Campus black op in Libya. Dom had been there, he’d held his brother…

— Tom Clancy

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

— Tom Clancy

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

— Tom Clancy

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

— Tom Clancy

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

— Tom Clancy

“These people were so self-destructively open, so afraid to offend those who would just as soon see them and their children dead…

— Tom Clancy

“Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required”

— Tom Clancy

Wars are begun by frightened men.

— Tom Clancy

“Melanie’s father had been an Army colonel who instilled in her a sense of duty as well as a sense of individuality.…

— Tom Clancy

Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)

— Tom Clancy