Outbreak (1995)
Morgan Freeman: General Billy Ford
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Quotes
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Sam Daniels : Sir, what did I ever do to make your life miserable?
General Billy Ford : You got up this morning, didn't you?
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General Billy Ford : Oh my God, it's our African friend. It's come back!
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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]
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Sam Daniels : Sir, I sent you the fax six hours ago...
General Billy Ford : Sam, I am not going to issue an alert.
Sam Daniels : I don't wanna bust up your party, sir, butyou gotta issue an alert.
General Billy Ford : You said it was contained!
Sam Daniels : I said containment was probable. You should be monitoring the airports, you gotta...
General Billy Ford : Sam! Do you remember 1989?
Sam Daniels : Yeah.
General Billy Ford : You found two lousy cases of Congo fever in Nairobi and we put a note to every American kid's lunchbox. You remember that?
Sam Daniels : Yeah, I was wrong.
General Billy Ford : You were wrong.
Sam Daniels : Uh-huh.
General Billy Ford : What about 1992? Lassa fever?
Sam Daniels : I was wrong. Yup.
General Billy Ford : Wrong again. But you're right about this?
Sam Daniels : No, I could be wrong...
General Billy Ford : Yet you waltz into my party smelling like dirty socks, snatch me away from Senator Rosales, whom I need not remind you, Sam, is head of the Senate Arms Services subcommittee which is in charge of our fucking budget.
Sam Daniels : Forget Ebola. Forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy. You could be dead in...
General Billy Ford : Keep your voice down.
[beat]
General Billy Ford : Now, that is exactly my point, Sam.
Sam Daniels : What?
General Billy Ford : It is the very lethality of this virus which is working for us here.
[referring to his party guests]
General Billy Ford : These unfortunate people don't live long enough to spread the goddamn thing around. So you're right, it is contained.
Sam Daniels : I hope so.
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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.