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" America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. "

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" Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. "

" Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. "

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" Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. "

" Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. "

" There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. "

" I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. "

" I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. "

" The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. "

" Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. "

" Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? "

" When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. "

" Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. "

" The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality. "

" It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. "

" In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. "

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" Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. "

" No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. "

" I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? "

" The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. "

" Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. "

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" There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. "

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" People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? "

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