Tom Clancy Men Quotations

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

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

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

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.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

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

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.

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

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.