Christopher Buckley Quotes
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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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 think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
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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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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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Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
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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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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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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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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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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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Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
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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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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.
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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.