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Red Storm Rising QUOTES

Red Storm Rising QUOTES

1 " We sink ships and try to pretend that they’re just ships—things without people in them. It’s dishonest, but we do it anyway. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

2 " If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

3 " level attacks. Their primary "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

4 " What will our Defense Minister do when it becomes obvious even to him that we have failed? Have you considered that? When desperate men realize they have failed—and those desperate men have control of atomic weapons, then what? "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

5 " A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!”

While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

6 " Torquemada seats. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

7 " Thirty miles north, at the piers of Philadelphia, Chester, and Camden, ships of the National Reserve Defense Fleet that had been held in readiness for years were getting ready to sail. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

8 " To call the situation a disgrace was to describe gang rape as a mild social deviation. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

9 " the five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

10 " There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

11 " but cranes can "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

12 " The Icelanders had no warrior tradition, "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

13 " You hear rushing air. If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates. I "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

14 " So, we never even knew that they were here, but the militia captain with our team did, and he kind of blurted it out. His exact words were, ‘My God, the Politburo’s in there! "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

15 " maskirovka, "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

16 " The Navy wanted to see just how effective her new quieting systems were. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

17 " kulak, "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

18 " Damn, guys, for about three minutes there it was just a little hairy, y’know? "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising

19 " There were three repeat pips on his Vietnam service ribbon. "

― Tom Clancy , Red Storm Rising