[Fightin Whitey]

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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[BlackElk]

That works too! Buckley had various formulations for this essential idea. I heard the version I cited when he debated Joe Duffey at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

[GeronL]

Not today’s Boston