Christopher Buckley Quotes

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

I've been to the White House a number of times.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The White House is a strange place.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

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.

That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

Nobody lives there [the White House]—they [Presidents] just come and go.

I have here [at the White House] company enough, part secretly hostile and a constant succession of strangers.