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

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" 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. "

" 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 good old days are now. "

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

" What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. "

" The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wars are begun by frightened men. "

" Success will ruin your life. "

" I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. "

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

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

" 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. "

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