Tom clancy

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

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

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.

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.

When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than...

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

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

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.