Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe, #1)

by Tom Clancy

The only thing that occupied a politician’s mind for more than a week was getting and holding votes.

But that was history. And history could not be changed.

But if without memories, good and bad, what was life, and if you forgot those who mattered to you, then what did you become? And if you didn’t act on those memories, what value did life have?

Men had egos that they had to nurture within their own fertile minds, and the smaller the mind the greater the ego.