Tom Clancy: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”

“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.”

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”

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

“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”

“Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.”

“It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”

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

“Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!”

“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.”

“The army led America in integration… The army recognized early on that, you know, black people are pretty much the same as white people; they just tend to be a little bit darker. They make just as good soldiers.”

“The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of little boys buzzing past girls on their bicycles.”

“When the first mission of Rainbow Six was actually coming together we really started to realize that we might have a hit on our hands, but hadn't really expected the runaway success.”

“Look, this is simple. The good old days are now. OK? The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.”

“Certainly, we live in a different world … for the first time in all of known human history, we live in a world absent of the likelihood of superpower conflict. Now we live in a world in which there are superpowers, but we're not butting heads all the time. That's a very good thing for the world… but… there's still a few bad guys out there.”

“The People's Republic of China is still a Marxist, Leninist, Maoist nation. So, you know, communism is still involved there. They haven't figured their way out of that particularly ideological box yet and that's their misfortune.”

“There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.”

“Countries that do not control knowledge and information tend to do better because the average guy who is exposed to a lot of information can get ideas and profit from them.”

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