Quotes from Michael T. Flynn

I've been called an extremist.

Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.

We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

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.

The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.

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.

Every year, the State Department declares Iran to be the world's primary supporter of terror.

I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

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.

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.

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.

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

There's one race that we have to worry about, and it's the human race.

We're in a world war.

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.'

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.

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.

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.