Outbreak (1995)

Donald Sutherland: General Donald McClintock

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• General Donald McClintock : With all due respect, Colonel Daniels, if you do not follow us to Travis Air Force Base, I will blow you out of the sky.

  Sam Daniels : General, with all due respect, fuck you, sir.

• General Donald McClintock : You silly, sentimental son of a bitch. Nobody puts me under arrest. Nobody.

  General Donald McClintock : [last lines as Col. Briggs bars his path with a sidearm]  Colonel Briggs. What a wonderful moment this must be for you!

  [Briggs grins as he leads him away] 

• General Billy Ford : Danny, this is General Ford. I remind you that you are interfering with Presidential authority. SANDMAN has a specific line to the target. If you are in his way he cannot complete his bombing run, and there will be hell to pay! Do you understand? Over.

  Sandman One Co-Pilot : Why'd he say that?

  Sandman One : Beats the hell outta me.

  General Donald McClintock : Billy! Are you dumb or somethin'? You just told him how to stop the -

  [stops as he realizes Gen. Ford knows exactly what he was doing] 

• General Donald McClintock : Colonel Briggs.

  Colonel Briggs : Yes, sir.

  General Donald McClintock : Daniels was here? And here?

  Colonel Briggs : Yes, he was down here.

  General Donald McClintock : Why was I not informed?

  Colonel Briggs : Sir, you were sleeping.

  General Donald McClintock : I am never *that* asleep, Briggs. Now you find him and you arrest him.

• General Billy Ford : You know, Colonel Daniels is not going to like us going behind his back like this.

  General Donald McClintock : Then we'll kill him.

  [beat] 

  General Donald McClintock : Lighten up, Billy. We have no alternative. You're so goddamn sentimental. That's the trouble with this country.

• General Donald McClintock : You know about this, I know about this, nobody else. Get your friend Daniels off the case. I don't want that nosy little bastard messing up 30 years of our work.

• General Billy Ford : Donny, you and I both know we can throw these people a lifeline.

  General Donald McClintock : No, we have to proceed with conventional containment. And you have to maintain an absolute media blackout. Control your subordinates.

• General Billy Ford : 1918. Remember your history, Donny? The great influenza pandemic. Circled the globe in nine months. Killed 25 million people.

  General Donald McClintock : My father lost three brothers in that. So?

  General Billy Ford : What if there were men who could have stopped it, only they didn't? How do you think history would judge such men?

  General Donald McClintock : Oh, baloney. FDR stopped Stilwell going into Indochina. He caused the Vietnam War. What's history say about him? Truman dropped the bomb on the Japanese. Saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. Now your revisionist historians are saying he just dropped that bomb to scare the Russians. Come on, give me a break.

  General Billy Ford : Those men were at war, Donny. We're not.

  General Donald McClintock : We are at war, Billy. Everybody is at war.

• General Donald McClintock : I have a Presidential green light on Operation Clean Sweep and I am going forward.

  General Billy Ford : Donny, these people are Americans.

  General Donald McClintock : Twenty-six hundred dead or dying Americans. If that bug gets out of there, Billy, 260 million Americans will be dead or dying. Those people are casualties of war, Billy. I would give them all a medal if I could; but they are casualties of war.

• General Donald McClintock : You kiss ass with the best of them, Briggs.

• General Donald McClintock : Good, Briggs. A potential screwup you managed to avoid among many others you have not.

• General Donald McClintock : You get something up in the air and blow him the Christ out of there. Now!