141 Quotes by Christopher Buckley

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

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.