Michael T. Flynn

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I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Legal
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This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Legal
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Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Leadership
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When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Mean
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Trump will never give up his style, his way to target his enemies. The Americans are fed up with the bullshit they heard for many years. They want the truth, they want to believe what their leaders are saying again. Trump is such an underdog, a fighter - a man who rebels against the establishment, against all kinds of resistance. That is what Americans love.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Giving Up
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We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Believe
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Believe
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When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Be Kind
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Heart
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I do care about the direction of America.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: America
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There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Dishes
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If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: America
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The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Islamic
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I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Thinking
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Why are all these refugees rushing to the beauty and strength of Europe and to the United States and not rushing to their own capitals or the capitals of the Muslim world? We ought to be pushing back. We ought to be putting people back on these boats and putting them back into the places where they came from and telling these leaders in the Arab world, "You have a responsibility as well."
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Responsibility
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I like serving America.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: America
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This [U.S.] bombing in Libya. So what are we doing in Libya? We just dropped some bombs on someone who we found is a leader there, maybe we killed some group attending a leadership meeting. Does this mean the problem is going to go away? No. It means we're going to have worse guys.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Mean
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It's not Islam, it's extremism in general, that is such a crock and that does a disservice to the people of America to make us sound like we're a bunch of idiots that we can't see what's going on in front of us and we're too weak to tell the truth.
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Collection: America
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Thinking
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I think that [Obama] sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Military
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I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.
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Collection: Military
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I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Thinking
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I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Currents
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Trump respects people who are selfish about their country. Putin is a guy who is very selfish about Russia and about the Russian federation, and he understands the history of his country. You can't say, "I don't like you." You've got to respect him. He's a world leader.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Country
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Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Fighting
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Obama's decision to leave, to not sustain the victory that resulted after eight years of fighting, from 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, was another incredibly stupid decision. It was totally based on politics, not based on any notion of national security. It's a nightmare for our national security. And then you have the Libya intervention.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Stupid
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I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: World
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People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Jesus
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The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen a Chinese aircraft carrier sitting inside the Persian Gulf? For at least 40 years, the United States of America has been guaranteeing Chinese energy supplies. Sitting here today, the US provides funds to, honest to God, 99 percent of the countries on the planet. We even give North Korea humanitarian aid. We give them food, and God knows what they do with it. They probably feed it to the crooks in the headquarters.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Country
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Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: War
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Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Egypt
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Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Want
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I believe there's a diseased component inside the Islamic world, the Muslim world, absolutely. It's like a cancer and it has metastasized and grabbed hold in a much bigger way, and it's because we, have tried to be, globally, tried to be so political correct.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Cancer
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Country
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You look at Libya, and you go, "Jesus, why the hell did we do that?" That's beyond stupid. That's so irresponsible and dangerous for our national security and frankly for the national security of Europe because you go and you look at where a lot of these refugees are coming out of, they're coming out of Misrata and Tripoli.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Jesus
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What I know is it is a disservice to those who continue to serve to think that there's going to be a civil-military breakdown because those who serve, they know who they serve. They know what their loyalties are, that's why you take an oath to the Constitution and your loyalty lies in the chain of command and your buddies. That's always been there. We are a professional military.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Loyalty
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The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Party
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: United States
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Donald Trump has no intention to step away without examining all relationships that we have. His intent is to relook at the way we are organized globally, where the US is sort of expected to be a global leader, but relook at these alliances and these charters that we are under to make sure that they are still viable for the 21st century. It doesn't mean that President Trump comes into office and NATO goes away.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Mean
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Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: People
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The United States should not have to intervene in every single problem around the world. The voters of this country are reacting in a very big, broad way to Mr. Trump. They are frustrated by lousy decisions made by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Look at the mess we have.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Country
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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?
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Military
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One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: World
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Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Country
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Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Arabia
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Religious
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Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Fall
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Islam
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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.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Zero
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I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
- Michael T. Flynn
Collection: Islamic