Christopher Buckley Quotes

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

A President must always be given credit for all his administration's successes and the final blame for the failures.

The nature of the Presidency is such that you are always asking yourself what else could you be doing?.

I ended up being the 43rd president of the United States. It was an awesome experience, and I'm glad I did it.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

We are all the President's men.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

I'm an appointee of President Obama.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

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.

Every President has to have a scapegoat.

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

We've got a wild man in the White House [Lyndon Johnson], and we are going to have to treat him as such.

Every president of the United States federalizes his values.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.