Quotes from Vince Flynn

Ohlmeyer 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

Everyone stood when Hayes entered the room. The President walked over to the German ambassador, Gustav Koch, and shook his hand. He then grabbed one of the two chairs in front of the fireplace. Michael Haik took the other chair, and Kennedy sat on the couch next to General Flood, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Next to General Flood sat his boss, Secretary of Defense Rick Culbertson. Directly across from them sat Secretary of State Midleton and the German ambassador

that 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.

Rickman wouldn't let something as trivial as death stop him.

them to do when they

Anyone with honor and integrity was worn down and spit out by the political machine of party politics.

He made that exact point to Kennedy, but she remained obstinate on the matter. She wouldn't go into

Careful," Miller snapped, like a judge warning a wayward attorney, "we're not talking about feelings or opinions. We're sticking to the facts right now.

Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.

Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.

Once one acquired everything money could buy, it all became a game. A petty competition between people with insecurities that they mistook for ambition and superiority.

I don't pretend to understand the American mind," spat Goldberg. "They often do things that make no sense to me.

Do I really have to go through this again? The shit has officially hit the fan and we are all Americans. There are no more Democrats and Republicans. No more rednecks and snowflakes. We've got to work together. Us knuckle draggers might be able to kill and gut a deer, but those little nerdy guys might be able to set you up with solar panels or keep you alive if you eat some bad barbecue. United we stand, assholes. Divided we're screwed.

The chairs were black plastic with coarse charcoal fabric seats that could render a pair of dress pants useless in just nine months. Lewis was amazed at how ubiquitous this type of furniture had become in Washington, which in turn led him to the conclusion that the maker of this substandard furniture was more than likely headquartered in the home district of the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

To make matters even worse, Washington was a town filled with professional protestors who knew exactly when and how to provoke a confrontation. When forced to move, they were prone to pratfalls and overly dramatic wails of pain as if their limbs were being twisted to the point of breaking. All of this was done, of course, right in front of the cameras to elicit maximum drama for the nightly news audience.

In the waning light of the attacks that had briefly awakened America to the threat of Islamic radical fundamentalism, the politicians had gone back to their old ways. They had turned on the very people they had asked to secure the country from attack. It always amazed Rapp that these were the very same people who in the year following 9/11 repeatedly asked the CIA if their measures of interrogation were tough enough. Now they were denying ever saying such things.

Everybody dies. And the rest of us move on until it's our turn.

death by a thousand cuts to be drawn out over a period of years not months.

Kennedy could see she enabled his behavior. She was a pleaser.

whipped up a cloud of dirty

or the trunk, taken somewhere and stripped naked

a job shortly after the two were sworn in. What Hayes

Jack, what do you think?

Everyone makes mistakes. What matters is that we try to make up for them.