"Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question...."
- Tom Clancy
"There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up."
"To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the ..."
"Panic is something that good operations officers plan for."
"It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you."
"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."
"There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a lit..."
"The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within."
"Not every story started off big enough to notice."