Christopher Buckley Quotes
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.
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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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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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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 certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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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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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 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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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 haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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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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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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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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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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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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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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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
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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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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
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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.