i would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the harvard university faculty /

William F. Buckley Jr.? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: I am trying to verify a quotation from the conservative commentator and novelist William F. Buckley Jr. It goes something like this: I would rather be governed by the first 1000 people listed in the phone book than by the faculty members from an Ivy League University. […]

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