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Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.
I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.
The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.
Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.