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

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

topic: Responsibility, Ties, People, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Character, Ties, Giving, Cameos, Chain Of Command

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

- Sun Tzu

topic: Effectiveness, Support, Regulation, Chain Of Command

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

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

topic: Firefly, Realizing, Beats, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Order, Law, Missing, Laws And Rules, Chain Of Command

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

- Frank Herbert

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

topic: Civilization, Quality, Individual, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Moving, Greed, Competition, Stakeholder, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Loyalty, Lying, Military, Chain Of Command, Disservice

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

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

topic: Greatness, Civilization, Quality, Chain Of Command

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

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Military, Winning, Men, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Running, Motivation, Inspiration, Chain Of Command

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

source: Source: www.vanityfair.com

topic: Chain Of Command

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Real, War, Taken, War Crimes, Chain Of Command

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

- Chuck Hagel

topic: Military, Years, Reason, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Hierarchy, Sticks, Madness, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Military, Assault, Perpetrators, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Discovery, Years, Body, Chain Of Command

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.

- John Bolton

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: War, Thinking, Criminals, War Crimes, Chain Of Command

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Jobs, Giving, Trying, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Media, Clothes, Thank God, Chain Of Command, E Commerce

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 organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Loyalty, Real, Greatness, Chain Of Command

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

topic: Army, Past, Support, Chain Of Command, Sergeants

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

topic: Brother, Moving, Discovery, Chain Of Command