Quotes from Tom Clancy

Armada y sería una maldita tonta si no hubiera pensado que

A superior fighter pilot is made up of one part skill, one part attitude, one part aggression, and one part madness.

you can follow along.

Torquemada seats.

Ryan nodded. He understood the phenomenon. "The money is in the dirt, it just has to be dug up or pumped up. The money isn't in innovation or intellectual property or in manufacturing. After a while, a nation loses its ability to innovate and to think and to build things.

thought this uproariously funny, but no one laughed.

It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn't have the brain market cornered.

midnight kill. "Next, we have to see

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

Mr. President, I will transmit your message within the hour. Please keep in mind, however, the time differential between Washington and Moscow—" "I know that a weekend has just begun, and that the Soviet Union is a worker's paradise, but I expect that some of your country's managers may still be at work.

Excellent as the KGB had been, the FBI was just as good. It had a long-standing institutional brilliance at false-flag operations, which, in the case of the couriers, had compromised a large number of sensitive operations run by the "Active Measures" people in KGB's Service A.

To call the situation a disgrace was to describe gang rape as a mild social deviation.

attack was coming. The

So, we never even knew that they were here, but the militia captain with our team did, and he kind of blurted it out. His exact words were, 'My God, the Politburo's in there!

That's damned likely," Gant interjected

The U.S. military must be able to project massive, shattering force quickly from many directions—land, sea, air, and space—which means, among other things, that service parochialism is an expensive and dated luxury. The new military mantra is "jointness"—all the services must be able to work together as well and as comfortably as with members of their own organizations.

the five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

The new system created by Goldwater-Nichols was not universally popular in the Pentagon, but the people in the field loved it.

How difficult would it be for these men who had risked their lives to adapt to something

THE FIRST DAY

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

You've got to dance with the one that brought you.

There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb.