Tom Clancy Quotes

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

The idea that only a limited number of people can live in a country is profound illusion. It all depends on their cooperative and inventive power.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

… only today, or yesterday at the earliest, after the long millenniums of man's life on this planet, has he acquired the technical skill, the command over the forces of nature, the physical power to produce enough and more for all his children upon the face of the earth.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.

I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.