A biography for Michael T. Flynnhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.”
“There's one race that we have to worry about, and it's the human race.”
“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 Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
“When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'”
“You come home when the war is won.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.”
“One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.”
“There is no substitute - none - for American power.”
“We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.”
“I've been called an extremist.”
“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.”
“The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.”
“There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.”
“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.”
“I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.”
“There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.”