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When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.
Michael T. Flynn
2.
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
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I do care about the direction of America.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.
Michael T. Flynn
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I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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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
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I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
11.
When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
Michael T. Flynn
12.
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
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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
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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
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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
16.
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
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There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.
Michael T. Flynn
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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.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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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
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The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.
Michael T. Flynn
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Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.
Michael T. Flynn
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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.
Michael T. Flynn
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Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
28.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.
Michael T. Flynn
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I feel pretty passionate about what's happening to America.
Michael T. Flynn
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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.
Michael T. Flynn
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The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.
Michael T. Flynn
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The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.
Michael T. Flynn
42.
Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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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.
Michael T. Flynn
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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.
Michael T. Flynn
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Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.
Michael T. Flynn
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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
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If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.
Michael T. Flynn
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I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.
Michael T. Flynn
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I like serving America.
Michael T. Flynn