I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age ... -Christopher Buckley

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.

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

Christopher Buckley Quotes to Explore

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is....
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, toilet...
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity....
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 d...
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 Lut...
I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous....
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 inspirati...
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...
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...
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 be...

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Due to the comparison with our dad and uncle, the expectations were humongous. From that to people saying that my music has my signature has been a lo...
After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last....
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of th...
I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad ha...
I'm from Newcastle and went to Cambridge University and I worried whether I'd fit in; I'm mixed race, so my mum grew up in Nigeria and my dad grew up ...
I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn't know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge ...
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spar...
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my ...
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to ge...
Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a ve...