Christopher Buckley Quotes
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
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I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
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Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
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It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
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I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
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Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.