Tom Clancy, Executive Orders Quotes

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.