Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7; Jack Ryan Universe, #8)

by Tom Clancy

Daughters, he told himself, were God’s revenge on you for being a man:

America is a shared idea. We’re people who think in a certain way, who believe that they can do the things they want to do. Everything else follows from that. It’s confidence, optimism, the one thing that other countries find so strange about us. If you take that away, hell, we’re no different from anybody else.