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

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea — Christopher Buckley

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55. — Christopher Buckley

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. — Christopher Buckley

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them. — Christopher Buckley

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet? — Christopher Buckley

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist. — Christopher Buckley

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas. — Christopher Buckley

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. — Christopher Buckley

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

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8. — Christopher Buckley

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing. — Christopher Buckley

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

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive. — Christopher Buckley

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

One night in Venus, the rest of your life on Mercury. — Christopher Buckley

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters. — Christopher Buckley

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one. — Christopher Buckley

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible. — Christopher Buckley

I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements. — Christopher Buckley

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. — Christopher Buckley

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

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

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan. — Christopher Buckley

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

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't. — Christopher Buckley

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist. — Christopher Buckley

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. — Christopher Buckley

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics. — Christopher Buckley

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

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum. — Christopher Buckley

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart. — Christopher Buckley

Between G and H Streets, and bore the characteristic "eagle" watermark. Ryan decided that the eagle — Christopher Buckley

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly. — Christopher Buckley

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off. — Christopher Buckley

I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me. — Christopher Buckley

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely. — Christopher Buckley

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. — Christopher Buckley

When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions. — Christopher Buckley

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write. — Christopher Buckley

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. — Christopher Buckley

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph. — Christopher Buckley

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.' — Christopher Buckley

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' — Christopher Buckley

One night, after imbibing about two acres' worth of vineyard grapes, she — Christopher Buckley

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business. — Christopher Buckley

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry. — Christopher Buckley

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living. — Christopher Buckley

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else. — Christopher Buckley

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

You live vicariously through your characters. — Christopher Buckley

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention. — Christopher Buckley

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

They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again. — Christopher Buckley

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

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. — Christopher Buckley

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

In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream. — Christopher Buckley

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. — Christopher Buckley

The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux. — Christopher Buckley

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley

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

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

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is. — Christopher Buckley

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan. — Christopher Masterson

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

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian. — Christopher Buckley

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin. — Christopher Buckley

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. — Christopher Buckley

There. But as they were in a public place and as she was dressed like a nun, he refrained. "Come, hurry!" he said — Christopher Buckley

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents. — Christopher Buckley

Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before. — Christopher Buckley

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. — Christopher Buckley

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

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since. — Christopher Buckley

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative. — Christopher Buckley

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

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley

There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it. — Christopher Buckley

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. — Christopher Buckley