Harvey Pitt is doing a great job and he has an incredibly strong record in terms of enforcement,
CLAIRE BUCHAN We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consiste...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Clearly the Democratic primaries have started early, and there appears to be a division within the p...
CLAIRE BUCHAN believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legis...
CLAIRE BUCHAN The U.S. stands with the Russian people.
CLAIRE BUCHAN The Iraqis have signed an agreement that allows inspectors any time, anywhere, by anyone. That is wh...
CLAIRE BUCHAN He'll be talking about the spirit of the American people as exemplified by these miners and the work...
CLAIRE BUCHAN The president has confidence in his economic team, and we never discuss specific personnel matters.
CLAIRE BUCHAN Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corr...
CLAIRE BUCHAN This is the beginning of the process. There will be a lot of votes and we are confident that at the ...
CLAIRE BUCHAN The president always indicates he's still not satisfied, that job creation is not yet where it needs...
CLAIRE BUCHAN The president is being very aggressive in talking about the economy. He talks about it a lot more th...
CLAIRE BUCHAN It's become clear (the practice) can be abused, as we've seen in some recent cases.
CLAIRE BUCHAN Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about thei...
CLAIRE Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the ...
JAMES BUCHAN For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all bu...
JAMES BUCHAN What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answe...
JOHN BUCHAN History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. ...
JOHN BUCHAN When I examined my political faith I found that my strongest belief was in democracy according to my...
JOHN BUCHAN Without humility there can be no humanity.
JOHN BUCHAN He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
JOHN BUCHAN Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up prete...
JOHN BUCHAN An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
JOHN BUCHAN By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disru...
JAMES BUCHAN Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To s...
JAMES BUCHAN Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament fro...
JAMES BUCHAN The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what ...
ANDREW BUCHAN A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as v...
JAMES BUCHAN Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic ...
JAMES BUCHAN To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
JOHN BUCHAN Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
JAMES BUCHAN Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
JAMES BUCHAN The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splen...
JAMES BUCHAN The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and ...
JAMES BUCHAN Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins,...
JAMES BUCHAN The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having...
JAMES BUCHAN The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series...
JOHN BUCHAN Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development...
JAMES BUCHAN Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush ...
JAMES BUCHAN Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
JAMES BUCHAN There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of...
JAMES BUCHAN You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the di...
JOHN BUCHAN The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-buildi...
JAMES BUCHAN I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...
JOHN BUCHAN The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th...
JAMES BUCHAN I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then wheth...
ANDREW BUCHAN Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' ...
ANDREW BUCHAN We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
JOHN BUCHAN Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decl...
JAMES BUCHAN Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they'r...
JAMES BUCHAN If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period su...
JAMES BUCHAN When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, t...
JAMES BUCHAN You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the d...
JOHN BUCHAN Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
JOHN BUCHAN Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are m...
JAMES BUCHAN The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JOHN BUCHAN One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once k...
JAMES BUCHAN I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and th...
ANDREW BUCHAN I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan...
ANDREW BUCHAN For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: b...
JAMES BUCHAN In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or ...
JAMES BUCHAN We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in wh...
JAMES BUCHAN Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never m...
JAMES BUCHAN Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
JOHN BUCHAN Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God...
JOHN BUCHAN When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new real...
JAMES BUCHAN My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from r...
JAMES BUCHAN Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008...
JAMES BUCHAN The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not G...
JAMES BUCHAN It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to ...
JAMES BUCHAN The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world liter...
JAMES BUCHAN Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008,...
JAMES BUCHAN The best prayers have often more groans than words.
JOHN BUCHAN Without humility there can be no humanity
JOHN BUCHAN There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
JOHN BUCHAN But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should...
JOHN BUCHAN Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic...
JAMES BUCHAN The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of on...
JAMES BUCHAN Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan an...
JAMES BUCHAN The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
JOHN BUCHAN To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you&#...
JAMES BUCHAN The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy i...
JAMES BUCHAN The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people...
JAMES BUCHAN Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?
ELIZABETH BUCHAN In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved th...
JAMES BUCHAN Those who are resilient can more quickly regain their equilibrium and spring back when they are thro...
MARY BUCHAN At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on ca...
JAMES BUCHAN Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process b...
JAMES BUCHAN The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites t...
JOHN BUCHAN All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
JAMES BUCHAN Ignore donkeys and other naysayers!
MARY BUCHAN The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.
JOHN BUCHAN Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutc...
JAMES BUCHAN Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
CLAIRE DANES I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
CLAIRE DENIS When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press...
CLAIRE BLOOM The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I t...
CLAIRE DANES The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.
CLAIRE CAMERON Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.
CLAIRE MESSUD I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomles...
CLAIRE DANES Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a...
CLAIRE KING If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until ...
CLAIRE WEEKS We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place,...
CLAIRE MESSUD I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, r...
CLAIRE DANES When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensiv...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious y...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
CLAIRE DANES I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
CLAIRE FORLANI My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
CLAIRE FORLANI When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjo...
CLAIRE FORLANI The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
CLAIRE FORLANI Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
CLAIRE FORLANI The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.
CLAIRE FORLANI But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
CLAIRE FORLANI I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
CLAIRE FORLANI I love accents.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she w...
CLAIRE FORLANI The older I get, the more relaxed I am.
CLAIRE FORLANI When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.
CLAIRE FORLANI I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
CLAIRE FORLANI My accent depends on whom I'm around.
CLAIRE FORLANI I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.
CLAIRE FORLANI I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
CLAIRE FORLANI Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
CLAIRE FORLANI After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.
CLAIRE FORLANI Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
CLAIRE FORLANI I am an unpredictable journey.
CLAIRE FORLANI If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.
CLAIRE FORLANI Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
CLAIRE FORLANI The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
CLAIRE FORLANI Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encour...
CLAIRE DANES People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.
CLAIRE DANES My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Han...
CLAIRE DANES There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
CLAIRE FORLANI In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I ...
CLAIRE DANES I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' ...
CLAIRE DANES How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprising...
CLAIRE CAMERON I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know w...
CLAIRE FOY I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
CLAIRE CAMERON I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day wo...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a q...
CLAIRE TOMALIN An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, ...
CLAIRE MESSUD When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ...
CLAIRE DANES I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legi...
CLAIRE DANES I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.”
“Me too,”...
CLAIRE LAZEBNIK Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to b...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
CLAIRE DANES What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
CLAIRE DANES I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so me...
CLAIRE DANES Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful telev...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more...
CLAIRE DANES Skype is one of the world's greatest inventions. I use it almost daily to connect with the peopl...
CLAIRE HOLT I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate wa...
CLAIRE MESSUD I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Mis...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
CLAIRE DENIS The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got ...
CLAIRE DANES Would you shake hands with the monster that lives in your closet?
CLAIRE AMBER If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
CLAIRE COOK I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
CLAIRE BLOOM The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that inter...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process ...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting wit...
CLAIRE CAMERON Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.
CLAIRE CHILTON I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw ...
CLAIRE CAMERON 'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took...
CLAIRE DANES I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while th...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are...
CLAIRE MESSUD Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderfu...
CLAIRE DENIS I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even cons...
CLAIRE FOY I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film critic...
CLAIRE MESSUD The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national deb...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you...
CLAIRE MESSUD Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health car...
CLAIRE DANES It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the...
CLAIRE DANES Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
CLAIRE FOY I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy li...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for ev...
WILLIAM CLAIRE I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs l...
CLAIRE SARGENT I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should ju...
CLAIRE DANES What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pa...
CLAIRE TREVOR I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
CLAIRE FOY I've become completely obsessed with Netflix original programming. 'House of Cards' and ...
CLAIRE HOLT The airplane should have landed early this morning. I heard on the radio it had crashed. I don't und...
CLAIRE RENETTE Dickens belongs to the English people.
CLAIRE TOMALIN The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
CLAIRE CAMERON Often there are not enough adult bodies in a classroom, which boosts the stress level for everyone. ...
CLAIRE LERNER We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job o...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester o...
CLAIRE DANES They have not been given a strong enough message about the health risks of oral sex.
CLAIRE BRINDIS We have a lot of unfinished business. There's so much we still want to do.
CLAIRE FAUCHER If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Ju...
CLAIRE DANES I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself ...
CLAIRE DANES