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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.
The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.
NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.
I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.
![Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/michael-flynn-139746.jpg)
Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.
I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.
When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.
When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.
I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.
There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.
We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.
Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.
The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.
