Michael T. Flynn Quotes

When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

I do care about the direction of America.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

Trump realized that you had to drive a stake through the heart of this establishment and that millions of Americans do not feel represented by this sort of clique in Washington.

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.

One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.

Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.

Donald Trump is a great listener, and he's a good challenger. He doesn't come across as a person who thinks he knows it all. In fact, he once told me he has had lot of things to learn.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

I feel pretty passionate about what's happening to America.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

We have a problem with radical Islamism and I actually think that we could work together with Russia against this enemy. They have a worse problem than America does.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.

I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

There are Muslims, who are moderate Muslims. And there's more of them than there are radicalized Muslims and are using Islam in its misinterpreted ideology.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

I like serving America.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.