POTUS and the Gods of Mars Quotes

“He’s on the path of least resistance,”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“An attack isn’t inevitable,” Mather said. “It isn’t even likely. They still haven’t done anything that would make us go public about their presence. Because they want it that way. It seems to serve their purposes. It just might be serving ours as well.” The”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“Even so, to an astonishing extent the government was successful in suppressing the truth. It’s a pretty amazing accomplishment, when you think about it. The average American knows there are millions of planets in the universe. He also believes it ridiculous to even consider the possibility that one of those planets might be able to support life intelligent enough to get here. . . The idea will take its rightful place in history one day, next to the flat Earth society and those afraid of falling off the edge.” A”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“He wondered if he should take it personally. The aliens wait until he’s in office, and then they decide to declare war on the United States? That seemed to be what they were doing. Did the aliens detect weakness in him? Did they think he was an easy mark?”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“That was the hottest question of the day, whether it was possible for China to sever Japan’s dependence on the West.”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“It used to be if you cracked up a plane, you got the boot no matter what, but that was before cutbacks in the defense budget had made fully trained fighter pilots not so easily discarded. “They’re never going to let me get beyond it. If I had known four years ago what I know now, I would have resigned my commission and gone from there.” A”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars

“Who would have thought it five years ago, that China would be intending to forge a full counterweight to the United States nuclear arsenal?” Much”
― Victor West, POTUS and the Gods of Mars