Top 44 Michael T. Flynn Quotes

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The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes

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.
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We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
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We are tired of Obama’s empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
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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.
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I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
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We want, certainly, the threats around the world, those that don’t like our way of life, we want them to wonder what options we still have.
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I’ve been called an extremist.
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Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.
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Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.
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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.
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We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
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Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
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Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.
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I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.
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The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It’s not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.
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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.
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I believe that our country is going in the wrong direction, and I have a very strong desire to help out in any way that I can.
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Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let’s get on board and help him win.
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The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.
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Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can’t be ignored nor wished away.
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What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear.
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If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.
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Because of Obama’s ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.
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The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
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I’ve been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
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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.
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Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.
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There is no substitute – none – for American power.
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Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term ‘radical Islam.’ That’s what we’re facing.
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On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.
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This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.
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I love serving this country, and I miss serving this co

I love serving this country, and I miss serving this country.
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The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.
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I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn’t vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.
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I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.
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You come home when the war is won.
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Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.
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We should quit using phrases like ‘turning points’ and ‘tipping points.’ There’s been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.
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There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.
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One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.
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I’ve always operated so far outside my lane, I’m not sure what lane is mine anymore.
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I think what – I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
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What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.
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You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.
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