I’ll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint ‘blue ribbon’ commissions. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or ‘Daddy,’ Party. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
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. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I remember standing in the crow’s nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock. Christopher Buckley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
