Chain Of Command Quotes

• While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Responsibility, Ties, People

  "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

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• There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

  Mark Goddard

  Character, Ties, Giving

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• And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

  Sun Tzu

  Effectiveness, Support, Regulation

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• You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

  Adam Baldwin

  Firefly, Realizing, Beats

  "Fictional character: Jayne". "The Train Job", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.

  William P. Young

  Order, Law, Missing

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• Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

  Frank Herbert

  Civilization, Quality, Individual

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.312, Penguin

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• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from
  markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  Anodea Judith

  Moving, Greed, Competition

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• What I know is it is a disservice to those who continue to serve to think that there's going to be a civil-military breakdown because those who serve, they know who they serve. They know what their loyalties are, that's why you take an oath to the Constitution and your loyalty lies in the chain of command and your buddies. That's always been there. We are a professional military.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Loyalty, Lying, Military

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

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• In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

  Scott Raab

  Military, Winning, Men

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

  Laurie Garrett

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Influence, Trump

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

  John Bolton

  Real, War, Taken

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• (The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, Years, Reason

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• Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Hierarchy, Sticks, Madness

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• It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.

  Paula Coughlin

  Military, Assault, Perpetrators

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• Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Garry Robbins

  Discovery, Years, Body

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• I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

  John Bolton

  Real, War, Taken

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

  Rick McCallum

  Jobs, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Thank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.

  Byron Lars

  Media, Clothes, Thank God

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants.

  Julius W. Gates

  Army, Past, Support

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• I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Eliot Engel

  Brother, Moving, Discovery

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