Christopher Buckley Quotes

American satirical novelist and political commentator, known for his works like "Thank You for Smoking" and "God Is My Broker."

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my moth... -Christopher Buckley

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

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.

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.

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

The cliche in American politics is that one week i... -Christopher Buckley

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

Discovering the context

The quote suggests that in American politics, events or circumstances can change rapidly, highlighting the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the field.

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.

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.

Christopher Buckley Quotes

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