"He had to grow his own NCOs."
- Tom Clancy
"Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had t..."
"Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits."
"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."
"One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun."
"A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel."
"How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion."