Quotes from Michael T. Flynn

The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

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.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

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.

Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.

Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved.

Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.

Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

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.

DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.

Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.

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 think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

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.'

One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.

I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.

We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.