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“You don't pick generals off park benches. … They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it.”

Tom Clancy

1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Context: My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have. You don't pick generals off park benches. … They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.

Thinking

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

Tom Clancy book Clear and Present Danger

Source: Clear and Present Danger

Life , World

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

Tom Clancy book The Hunt for Red October

Source: The Hunt for Red October

Thinking

“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.”

Tom Clancy

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

Guy , Idea , Knowledge , Country

“I write strictly for fun… as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.”

Tom Clancy

Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
1980s

“The military has always been a very introspective organization… One of the reasons why the army is so progressive is its always examining itself. The army is always looking for better ways to do its job.”

Tom Clancy

2000s, In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

Way

“No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that…"”

Tom Clancy

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

Life , Idea

“What underclass? I mean you know, what underclass? Do you know any of them? Do they have automobiles? Most of them probably do. Do most of them have television sets? Do most of them have telephones? Well, if they can afford automobiles, they can afford computers. And since they have television sets, they already have access to communications technology. And since they have telephones, they can talk to one another. Wherein are they deprived?”

Tom Clancy

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

Communication

“I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.”

Tom Clancy

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

People

“I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and — like a kid with his toy trains, — except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things… I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again.”

Tom Clancy

Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
1980s

World , Way , Training

“These are our kids… They're good kids… Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country… Those are our kids… They're our kids.”

Tom Clancy

2000s, In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

Alcohol , Country

“The hard part is discriminating between factual reporting and journalistic fiction. Last year at the National Press Club I said out loud and in public [C-SPAN was there] that the difference between me and a lot of reporters is that I do good fiction. Some were polite enough to chuckle.”

Tom Clancy

"Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly" (12 February 2000) http://www.clancyfaq.com/Clancy%20Speaks%20Again%20Briefly.htm
2000s

Parting

“The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.”

Tom Clancy

Jokingly to news reporters. Speech at the National Press Club (18 May 1999).
1990s