Quotes from Stephen Coonts

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

Democracy is built on the simplest premise that has ever supported a political system, that a majority of the voters will be right more often than they are wrong.

They found seats. The train was crowded, as usual. The young men looked around and were pleased to see that there were no uniformed police, no armed guards of any type, not that they expected any. This was America, the most under-policed nation on earth.

Tailwinds are like smiles from beautiful women—rare and to be cherished.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Don't let the assholes grind you down.

I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.

Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have just told that recruiter to send me in prison instead.

God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.

Medicine often tastes bad, but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery.

If there were no love there would be no hatred. Just sorrow. And

I've talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now".

A government that loses, or forfeits, the consent of the governed is doomed. Invariably. Inevitably. Irreversibly

And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.

If it floats, flies or fucks, rent—don't buy!

The desire of Barry Soetoro to drastically increase the number of non-white voters in America as quickly as possible to enhance the political power of blacks and Hispanics and Muslims and dilute the power of the whites is another.

China into something resembling a free-market autocracy.

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

though the corners were routinely used to store farm machinery and fodder for the animals and occasionally to get a sensitive animal in out of the sun. Primarily the building existed

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.