Executive Orders Quotes

“To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“It’s a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you’re there for them.” And I have to be sure that it’s all real, that I actually am the President.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“If the First Toddler wears it, it has to be fashionable.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“To Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Won the War.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Therefore, to you, and to the fifty governors, I have a request. Please, do not send me politicians. We do not have the time to do the things that must be done through that process. I need people who do real things in the real world. I need people who do not want to live in Washington. I need people who will not try to work the system. I need people who will come here at great personal sacrifice to do an important job, and then return home to their normal lives. “I want engineers who know how things are built. I want physicians who know how to make sick people well. I want cops who know what it means when your civil rights are violated by a criminal. I want farmers who grow real food on real farms. I want people who know what it’s like to have dirty hands, and pay a mortgage bill, and raise kids, and worry about the future. I want people who know they’re working for you and not themselves. That’s what I want. That’s what I need. I think that’s what a lot of you want, too.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“They loved their country largely because they controlled it.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Politics had to be the only arena known to man in which people took great action without caring much for the realworld consequences, and to which the real world was far less important than whatever fantasy,”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“It’s going to be hard writing for you. I can’t dip into the usual well. I have to learn to write the way I used to like to write, not the way I’m paid to write,”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?” the President asked with a wry smile. “Diplomacy.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“The allocation of research money was a political act.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“I’m tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It’s all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn’t to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It’s not supposed to be that way!”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Efficiency was a concept foreign to most government agencies, not because there was anything wrong with the people, but because nobody had ever told them to do better.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“He had to grow his own NCOs.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Not every story started off big enough to notice.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“It is good that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“He believed in things that worked, that produced the promised results and fixed whatever was broken. Whether those things adhered to one political slant or another was less important than the effects they had. Good ideas worked, even though some of them might seem crazy. Bad ideas didn’t, even though some of them seemed sensible as hell. But Washington didn’t think that way. Ideologies were facts in this city, and if the ideologies didn’t work, people would deny it; and if the ones with which they disagreed did work, those who’d been opposed would never admit it, because admitting error was more hateful to them than any form of personal misconduct. They’d sooner deny God than deny their ideas.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders