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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.

— Tom Clancy Schafer interview (1995)

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There's nothing that's ever happened in the world that didn't start in one human mind.

In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.

There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Without Remorse (1993)

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

to an interview on Larry King Live; also quoted in Quotable Quotes (1997)

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

Patriot Games (1987)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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