"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."

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

William Eldridge Odom

#Responsibility Quotes #Ties Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Finality is not the language of politics.”
“I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge
“You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.”
“I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants”
“We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.”

Source : William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.482, Cambridge University Press
“I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.”
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works of Isaac Barrow, ed. by A. Napier”, p.345

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