Christopher Buckley Quotes
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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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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.
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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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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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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
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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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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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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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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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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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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'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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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 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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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
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I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
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Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.