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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Meeting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Letters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Orphan
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'
- Personally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020