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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. -- Alan Greenspan
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. -- Herbert Hoover
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. -- Colin Powell
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. -- Hillary Clinton
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate. -- David Rockefeller
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. -- Howard Fineman
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy. -- Mason Cooley
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life -- Anita Hill
In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders. -- Bobby Jindal
I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath. -- Donna Rice Hughes
Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane. -- Tom Feeney
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. -- Bobby Jindal
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else. -- Bob Woodward
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. -- Gerard Arpey
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world. -- Chris Chocola
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control. -- Jerome Lawrence
Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. -- Charles Rangel
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. -- Linda Chavez
You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out. -- Busta Rhymes
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. -- Terry Eagleton
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. -- Bill Vaughan
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. -- Judy Collins
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. -- Charles E. Wilson
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. -- Janine di Giovanni
In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. -- Bill Gates
Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious! -- Halle Berry
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -- Alanis Morissette
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. -- Siri Hustvedt
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. -- Dan Rather
Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. -- Charles Rangel
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. -- Lester B. Pearson
During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound. -- Russel Honore
Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. -- Cedric Richmond
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology). -- Seth Shostak
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. -- John Irving
Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships. -- Simon Mainwaring
The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -- Alanis Morissette
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon. -- Jody Williams
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young. -- Lynne Reid Banks
The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath. -- Jose Marti
Marriage is the aftermath of love. -- Noel Coward
Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion. -- Ludwig von Mises
In the aftermath, we are because they were. -- RJ Heller
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation. -- John le Carre
The future is bulletproof, the aftermath is secondary. -- Gerard Way
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love. -- Parker Posey
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. -- Anita Hill
If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable. -- Zhou Shengxian
[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. -- Anna Quindlen
Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath. -- Amy Dickinson
The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself. -- Mara Liasson
Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. -- Jeffery Deaver
Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives. -- Hedi Slimane
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. -- William Bernhardt
I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job. -- Greg Hicks
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain. -- Malcolm Lowry
Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place. -- Jon Shenk
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured. -- Bob Barr
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you. -- Suzanne Collins
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. -- Maajid Nawaz
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world. -- Hanya Yanagihara
I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better. -- Joe Biden
'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection. -- Roma Downey
I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal. -- Christina Applegate
A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection. -- Roma Downey
The thing about unrequited love is that you try your hardest to survive the aftermath of a wild goose chase between fantasy and reality. -- Jourdane Erasquin
The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the crime itself. -- Ted Bundy
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event. -- Don DeLillo
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. -- Renata Adler
If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture. -- Donald Trump
Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those. -- Elizabeth Warren
Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang. -- Alan Guth
Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath. -- Mary Harron
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad. -- Charles Kennedy
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. -- Ludwig von Mises
Tabitha knew from hard-won experience the hardest part wasn't enduring the storm, or accepting the end. It was finding a way to put the broken pieces together in the aftermath. -- Kele Moon
I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina. -- Ken Auletta
I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front. -- John Irving
The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost. -- Mark Doty
In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back. -- Nick Harkaway
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery. -- Emmett Tyrrell
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that. -- Frank Rich
Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions. -- Thomas Keating
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug. -- John L. Casti
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. -- Pat Brown
The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit. -- Nick Harkaway
Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath. -- Phyllis McGinley
Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways. -- Kode9
Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously. -- Emily Giffin
Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice, -- Jean Chretien
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats. -- Barton Gellman

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