316 Quotes by Tom Clancy

I don't discuss works in progress ...

I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. ... It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

I think it’s an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you’d better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.