Quotes from Vince Flynn

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

MIKE Nash glanced anxiously at his watch and then eyed the twin flat-screen monitors. Both prisoners were sleeping soundly. If all went according to plan, their slumber wouldn't last much longer. The prisoners had been picked up seven days earlier on a routine patrol. At the time, the young GI's had no idea whom they had stumbled upon. That revelation came later, and by accident. The brass at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan quickly separated the two men from the other 396 enemy

Revenge is more wild, less calculated . . . deeply personal." "And retribution?" Rapp thought about it for a moment and then answered in a very clear voice. "Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved.

The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened to drown him.

Rapp took his pathetic self-absorbed emotion and shoved it as far down in his gut as it would go, and he plugged it with the first and only thing he had available—anger. That anger slowly metastasized into a suit of armor. For the first time since the news had hit him, he saw a way out. A faint light at the far end of the cavern. He wasn't sure what it was, but he knew he had to head toward it. It was the only thing that offered him hope.

He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think. "I'd rather go down swinging," he muttered as he shut the door. If he survived this little ordeal he'd have to ask Lewis if talking to yourself was a symptom of losing your mind.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required." Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much

Your flanks must always be protected and your center must be anchored with reinforcements. Supplies needed to be secured from raids and scouts needed to be deployed as aggressively as possible to discern the strength and position of the enemy.

The Saudis think that God is on their side, and people who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts.

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization. Mitch