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

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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. "

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

" Wars are begun by frightened men. "

" Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. "

" The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. "

" 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. "

" Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. "

" The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. "

" Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that. "

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

" The good old days are now. "