Christopher Buckley

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

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. ”

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

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in. ”

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger. ”

American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years? ”

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics. ”

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

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. ”

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