Michael T. Flynn Quotes

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

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It’s not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

I love serving this country, and I miss serving this country.

Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.

Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.

I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.

There’s one race that we have to worry about, and it’s the human race.

I don’t know Jeb Bush. I’ve never met him.

There is no substitute – none – for American power.

We don’t go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I’ve seen on our battlefields.

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

The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.

Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.

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.

I honestly don’t know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.

The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.

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

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

Trump has a bigger, longer-term vision for this country than just sitting as a president for four years. He really does. And that’s what I was impressed by.

What I believe in is I believe in law.

I’ve been called an extremist.

You come home when the war is won.

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.

Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

I think women have to be able to choose… sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they’re the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

What he’s really talking about – and I’m speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump – is that he’s saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

The president says, ‘What difference does it make what you call the enemy?’ Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, ‘Well, you know, boss, I don’t label this enemy that we’re facing.’

The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that’s when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn’t vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term ‘radical Islam.’ That’s what we’re facing.

Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.

What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.

Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved.

On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.