Afterthought Quotes

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

(on adjusting to life in New York:) "My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don`t want to stay inside for fear they`ll go crazy. I`ve also found television remotes to be an afterthought here. I don`t even have to get up from the couch to change channels." (September 29, 2003)

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State`s destruction.

It shouldn`t take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation`s heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America`s seniors were an afterthought.