213 Quotes by David Baldacci

Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.''What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.''Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.

-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.”Stone said nothing.-“Why then? God and country?”-“Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.”-“What then?”-“So I can look at myself in the mirror.

Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

You can’t die, Roy.”“Why?”“I’ve got a pretty good feeling I’m going to need one kick-ass lawyer, and you’re the only one I know.

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.