Quotes by Christopher Buckley

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.