47 quotes
The more information available to the average person, the greater the synergy that develops from it.
Schafer interview (1995)
I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
I don't discuss works in progress...
China has a lot of people and not enough space and the Russians have not too many people and a lot of space.
CNN interview (2000)
The average guy is smart enough to know the difference between what works and what doesn't, and if you have bad information, sooner or later, you figure it out and you get onto something else.
Larry King Live (2000)
Democracy is spreading across the world. Democracy is only possible with easy access to information and good communications. And technology is a way of facilitating communications.
Schafer interview (1995)
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.
Schafer interview (1995)
People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots...
The army led America in integration... The army recognized early on that, you know, black people are pretty much the same as white people; they just tend to be a little bit darker. They make just as good soldiers.
In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)
Our tools keep getting better, and as a result of that, our lives keep getting better.
Schafer interview (1995)
I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
Larry King Live (2000)
The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of little boys buzzing past girls on their bicycles.
CNN interview (1999)
A field commander never has the information he needs. He has to go with his best hunch. The more information he has, the easier it is for him to win the battle.
Schafer interview (1995)
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.
Kudlow & Cramer interview (2003)
Countries that do not control knowledge and information tend to do better because the average guy who is exposed to a lot of information can get ideas and profit from them.
Schafer interview (1995)
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
Schafer interview (1995)
"If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell."
"Comrades?"
"One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?"
Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engels and even Lenin. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.
You don't pick generals off park benches. … They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it.
CNN interview (1999)
The People's Republic of China is still a Marxist, Leninist, Maoist nation. So, you know, communism is still involved there. They haven't figured their way out of that particularly ideological box yet and that's their misfortune.
Larry King Live (2000)