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

- Christopher Buckley

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, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley

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

- 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

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 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 am post-Catholic.

- Christopher Buckley

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

- 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

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

- Christopher Buckley

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.

- Christopher Buckley

'Catch-22''s admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

- 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

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

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

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

- 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

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