Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Michael T. Flynn - Page 3

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.

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

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

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

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

NATO was formed post-World War II. We're a little bit more than a half-century old. Do we want NATO to go on for another half-century? I think that the answer is, sitting here today: I don't know. If I had to bet on it, I would say, yeah, we have to have these alliances going forward and see who's going to pay for them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.