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

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Tom Clancy

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.
Tom Clancy

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?
Tom Clancy

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

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.
Tom Clancy

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.
Tom Clancy

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
Tom Clancy

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

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


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

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

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?
Tom Clancy

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

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

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.
Tom Clancy

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

The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy

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

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