Michael T. Flynn Quotes

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

As Secretary of Defense I have to be cautious and prudent.

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

No American President should ever take any option off the table.

Statecraft, as these cases convincingly illustrate, is demanding and often exhausting work. There are risks, and success is not guaranteed. It requires major governmental and political resources and the same kind of hourly, year-round planning and execution as the conduct of a military campaign.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

Political considerations can be taken into account only as long as they do not make demands that are militarily improper or impossible.

When you are Commander in Chief, you should keep all your options on the table.

President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt always had a wider point of view, of necessity, than I did.

The war in Afghanistan is not of a peace with the rest of Obama's worldview. It's a holdover from the era that his election was supposed to bring to a close.

Our nation counts on us to have the expertise and the insight to flag the risks and the opportunities that lie ahead, and to keep our eye on all the critical international concerns that face our nation right now.

Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment.

I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.

Donald Trump himself actually said during his campaign that he essentially thinks being unpredictable is a good thing. Maybe that's a good thing in domestic politics, but in foreign policy, that is really stupid.

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.