John Heilemann Quotes

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.

I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

I don't know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.

[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.