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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. (Tom Clancy)
There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. View quote
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Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one - or take equivalent action, I suppose. View quote
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My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel, ... And I read a lot of history. View quote
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Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. View quote
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The more information a guy has, the more likely he is to say, "Hey, King Charlie, you really blew that call." That's why democracy happened. 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. View quote
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When the first mission of Rainbow Six was actually coming together we really started to realize that we might have a hit on our hands, but hadn't really expected the runaway success. View quote
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Look, this is simple. The good old days are now. OK? The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. View quote
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The People's Republic of China is still a Marxist, Leninist, Maoist nation. So, you know, communism is still involved there. They haven't figured their way out of that particularly ideological box yet and that's their misfortune. View quote
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No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. 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..." View quote
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"Rainbow Six" was sort of a spinoff of one my books, which did pretty well. ... Interestingly enough, I never play the games. I just sort of - it's more fun for me to help formulate them than it is to play them. (Tom Clancy)
Fifteen years ago, there was this country called the Soviet Union that had over 10,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us... they're not there anymore. That's a good thing. And when people talk about how the world is more dangerous now than it was because we had these terrorists running around, my reply is, you know, a terrorist is like a buzzing mosquito. About 15 years ago, there was a great, big vampire bat; that's several orders of magnitude different from a mosquito. So the world is much safer - a lot safer than it was. It's not perfectly safe, but it's a heck of a lot safer than it was. View quote
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I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and - like a kid with his toy trains, - except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things... I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again. View quote
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There are things I know I know about I don't write about, which I could not responsibly put into my books. Interestingly enough, though, the scariest one of those things is not classified at all. But nevertheless, I don't write about it, because it would make the world a somewhat more dangerous place. View quote
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These are our kids... They're good kids... Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country... Those are our kids... They're our kids. View quote
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[...] The image superimposed on Ricci's field of view by his visor display showed a pair of guards in hooded parkas, goggles, and wool scarves taking relaxed strides along their patrol of the building's north side. Their shoulder-slung FN P90 assault weapons fired the same ammunition as his FN Five-seveN pistol: small rounds, big punch. [...]. View quote
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The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. View quote
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Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate. View quote
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. View quote
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Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. View quote
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Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money. (Tom Clancy)
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. View quote
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It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. View quote
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The army led America in integration... The army recognized early on that, you know, black people are pretty much the same as white people; they just tend to be a little bit darker. They make just as good soldiers. View quote
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Certainly, we live in a different world ... for the first time in all of known human history, we live in a world absent of the likelihood of superpower conflict. Now we live in a world in which there are superpowers, but we're not butting heads all the time. That's a very good thing for the world... but... there's still a few bad guys out there. View quote
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