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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
Born: Sep 28, 1952
Been Good Me Think White You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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. Christopher Buckley
Strange Remember Rose Lock Entered Inside Nest Crow Higher Misty Ship Canal Sensation Standing Panama
I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning. Christopher Buckley
Dinner Inevitable Seconds Deficit Reckoning Dinner Table Table About Clear Like Moaning Than Less
Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative. Christopher Buckley
Myself Conservative
If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different. Christopher Buckley
You President See Layers Writer Between Him Because Different Vice Vice President Much Really Many Speech
I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have. Christopher Buckley
Parents Own Gone Say Would My Own George Irreplaceable Anyone Barbara Bush Now Beloved
I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush. Christopher Buckley
Life Great My Life Few Having Blessings Known George Been End Barbara Bush Many Receiving
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors. Christopher Buckley
Become Aide Presidents Dare Laws Prosecutors Journals Diaries Avid Special Lest Keep
My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer. Christopher Buckley
Grace Father Mind Style Obama Would Ability Writer Well Been His Impressed Barack Manner Certain
I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is. Christopher Buckley
Sad Live Admit Sad Thing Know Am Train Thing
American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years? Christopher Buckley
Better Political Will Criteria Rather More Variety Tend Over Namely Voters Employ Make Scientific Material Provide Years American Decisions Us Next Who Professional Based Four
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. Christopher Buckley
Government Problem Election Every Presidential Way Solve More Only Cabinet Proposes Idea New Particular Particular Problem Inevitably Candidate Just Agency Create
As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments. Christopher Buckley
You Church Liberal Insert Allowed Divorce Know She Catholic Catholic Church Still However Large Here
I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since. Christopher Buckley
Post Faithful Since Reader Been Washington Washington Post Lived Ever
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party. Christopher Buckley
Party Once Claim Responsible Lay Could Fiscally Being Republican Republican Party Mantle Daddy
I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements. Christopher Buckley
Entitlement Our Spending Broke Democrats Grandchildren Defend
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin. Christopher Buckley
World Live Spin Spinning Planet
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics. Christopher Buckley
Real Estate Location Real Estate Public Acoustics Speaking Public Speaking
I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone. Christopher Buckley
Alone Time Become Way Only Only Child Writers Because Lot Child Suspect Being Children Being Alone
I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast. Christopher Buckley
Remember Breakfast Sweet Our Flying Danish Kids Laughing Collecting Dawn Over Dock Dead Coming Fish Off Up Bananas Fry Deck Them Us Strait Cook Bringing Fat
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business. Christopher Buckley
Business Lobbyists Way Evolved Spaceship Organically Descend
I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title. Christopher Buckley
Word Long Power White White House Everybody Memoir Memoirs Minutes Writes Never House Read Because Without Years Five Bunch Than Title Worked Pages Less Who Works Even Two
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. Christopher Buckley
Good You Book Enough Rightly Taken Perhaps Know Been Review Task Accused Being Mean Being Mean Many Satirist
I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely. Christopher Buckley
Blessing Every Only Only Child Absolutely Had Advantage Child Who
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards. Christopher Buckley
You Police Toilets Car Every Cargo Carried Tell Penicillin Kind Data Red Container Balls Ship Walker View Lumber Cards
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. Christopher Buckley
Day You Matter Try Will Richard Nixon Every Lyndon Lyndon Johnson Laugh Nixon Hated Johnny Johnny Carson Johnson He Reagan Go His Jack Did Candidate Dwight Eisenhower Ronald Reagan Richard Credit Second Every Second Imagine
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