You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.
Michael T. Flynn
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
My message to you is very clear: Wake up, America!
I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.
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.
There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.
There's one race that we have to worry about, and it's the human race.
We're in a world war.
I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.
What I believe in is I believe in law.
We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.
Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.
What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.
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 believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
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.
We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.
There is no substitute - none - for American power.
I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.
One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.
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.
One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.
We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.
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.
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.
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.
Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.
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.
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.
I love serving this country, and I miss serving this country.
I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.
The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.
I honestly don't know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.
One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.
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.
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.
The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.
The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.
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.
Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.
Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.
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.
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.
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.'
Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.
Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved.
Every year, the State Department declares Iran to be the world's primary supporter of terror.
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.
