Michael T. Flynn quotes:

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.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

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

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I do care about the direction of America.

I like serving America.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

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.

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.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

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.

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

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

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

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.

If there's a way to serve America, I'd always consider it.

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.

There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.

This [U.S.] bombing in Libya. So what are we doing in Libya? We just dropped some bombs on someone who we found is a leader there, maybe we killed some group attending a leadership meeting. Does this mean the problem is going to go away? No. It means we're going to have worse guys.

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.

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.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

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.

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

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

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.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

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

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.