Latest Michael T. Flynn Quotes from Interviews

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  Mean, Crime, Committed

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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

  Giving Up, Believe, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Military, Smart, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Heart, Clique

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Thinking, Know It All

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  Be Kind, Kind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  Fighting, Fighter, Remember

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Jesus, Stupid, Hell

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Country, Decision, Frustrated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Stupid, Fighting, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  People, National Security, Foreign Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Country, Selfish, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  World, Fool, Threat

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Responsibility, People, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  Thinking, Crisis, Refugee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  War, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Country, Giving, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Mean, Office, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  Political, Term, Capability

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Military, Thinking, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Michael T. Flynn

  World, Trump, Agree

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Fall, Airports, Catholic

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Islam, Ideology, Misinterpreted

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Jesus, Gay, Charlie Hebdo

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Cancer, Believe, Islamic

  "Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin and why Russia Today is just like CNN". Interview with Dana Priest, www.washingtonpost.com. August 15, 2016.