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- 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
I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
You live vicariously through your characters.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
- Being Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
- Lobbyists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020