You know, fear gets a bad rap, Salt. I don't want anybody working with me who isn't scared. Okay?
Well then I'm you're man, sir.
Sam Daniels
Dustin Hoffman · 20 quotes
Casey Schuler
Kevin Spacey · 7 quotes
Robby Keough
Rene Russo · 5 quotes
Col. Sam Daniels
Dustin Hoffman · 4 quotes
Gen. Donald McClintock
Donald Sutherland · 4 quotes
Maj. Salt
Cuba Gooding Jr. · 4 quotes
Gen. Billy Ford
Morgan Freeman · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Sam Daniels & Casey Schuler (5), Sam Daniels & Robby Keough (4), Sam Daniels & Maj. Salt (4)
Outbreak quotes
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Sgt. Meyer
Sir, my pilot's... taking a leak.
A leak? No shit!
[Airport dispatch Sergeant Wolf tries to call General Ford to confirm Daniels' change to Cedar Creek.]
You call the tower right now, and you tell 'em to change my flight plans. Put your finger on the phone! Put your finger on the phone.
Sgt. Wolf
This could mean my stripes, sir.
It'll mean your ass if you don't put your finger on the phone. Finger the phone. Finger it.
Col. Briggs [Colonel Briggs hands General McClintock an address.]
They're headed right there, and I got two teams on standby.
Good, Briggs — a potential screw-up you managed to avoid among many others you have not. Who do you think should handle this now?
Col. Briggs You, sir?
You kiss ass with the best of them, Briggs. You hope to make General one day?
Col. Briggs Yes, sir.
Well, you won't.
[Daniels and Salt barge through a crowded line at a Federal export clearance office.]
Colonel Daniels, from USAMRIID. I'm sorry.
George Yes, and I'm George from Sioux City, Iowa. Back of the line, Colonel.
We got a terrible epidemic. We're from Cedar Creek, George. [to the crowd] We're from Cedar Creek, California!
CEDAR CREEK, SITE OF THE VIRAL INFECTION!
[Everyone backs away. George looks worried.]
George, you heard about this virus — need we say more? Okay, we need all the bills of lading from ships arriving from Africa [clasps George's hands] in the last three months. George!
George [nervously]
Uh-huh... huh?
Shall I cough on you, George?
. . .
The Tae Kuk has set out to sea already, sir.
So what?
How're we gonna locate it?
Mrs. Pananides I got a friend in the Coast Guard. I can make a call, easy.
How close a friend?
Mrs. Pananides Closer than his wife would like.
[Daniels tries to stop the oncoming bomber plane.]
Ohh, Christ, guys, if you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb. But don't drop the bomb just because you're following orders!
[Gen. Ford refuses to send Col. Daniels to Cedar Creek.]
Now, I'm your boss; I have my boss. Is that clear to you?!
Yeah. Get your boss on the phone! Call up McClintock! Tell him to put me on a plane before the two of you kill a lot of people!
Colonel, I'm gonna suggest that you shut up now before you say something else you're gonna be sorry for. And don't forget who you're talking to!
Well, tell me who I'm talking to, 'cause I don't know who I'm talking to anymore, Billy. Am I talking to USAMRIID? The Pentagon? The CIA? **** McClintock? Dugway?
[Sam and Casey caution eager new team member Major Salt.]
It's just one of those panics that puts us all in danger.
And he's under direct orders not to die out there. And that's one set of orders he's actually planning on following.
[Sam and Robby talk as she's recovering from the disease.]
It's a pretty unique experience.
Sorta like living with me.
Mm-hmm.
Would you go through it again?
Maybe. Now that I have the antibodies.
[Sam looks over Casey's shoulder as he dictates the Motaba Valley outbreak report.]
"Alarmingly high fatality. All localized within a three-mile radius... incubation period short... appears contained." Alarming! Casey, you didn't put "alarming".
It's an adverb, Sam. It's a lazy tool of a weak mind.
How many? 'Bout a billion.
Ooh... now I'm only as smart as you.
Heh-heh. What can we give him to kill his sense of humor?
[Sam tries unsuccessfully to get Robby to issue a CDC alert.]
Once in your life, take a chance!
You know what, Sam? I did. I married you.
[The USAF plane tasked to drop a fuel-air bomb on Cedar Creek has sent the weapon over the water instead. General McClintock is ordering it rearmed]
Sandman, this is General Ford. You will ignore that order. For the record, I'm relieving General McClintock of command, for the crime of withholding vital information from the President of the United States.
I have, in no way, withheld vital information from the President of the United States.
Colonel Briggs.
Colonel Briggs Sir.
Place General McClintock under arrest.
If I go down for this, Billy, you go down for it.
It's out of our hands now, Donnie.
You silly sentimental son of a bitch... Nobody puts me under arrest. Nobody. [blocked by a pistol-packing Col. Briggs as he tries to leave the command post] Colonel Briggs. What a wonderful moment this must be for you. [Briggs smiles as he leads him away under armed guard.]
[appeals to the Clean Sweep bomber crew to call off the strike]
You hear me, don't you, guys? I'll say it one last time. These people that you're going to bomb are not the enemy. We can kill the virus without killing these people. I swear on my soul that the President does not have the facts. He doesn't know we have a working serum. Oh Christ, if you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb, but don't drop the bomb just because you're following orders! What you haven't been told is that your superiors have another agenda. Don't you understand that right below you in Cedar Creek, there's a biological weapon that they've been manufacturing illegally for the last 30 years?!? Hey, I guarantee you that the disease has spread beyond the perimeters of this town! If you incinerate Cedar Creek, you incinerate the serum!!!