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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2009-05-22:

"I mean, anyone who actually listened to what Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey were saying in 1994, let alone what passed for thought in the Bush administration, should have realized long ago that if there ever was an intellectual basis for modern conservatism, it was long gone.

"And the truth is that the Reaganauts were a pretty grotesque bunch too. Look for the golden age of conservative intellectualism in America, and you keep going back, and back, and back -- and eventually you run up against William Buckley in the 1950s declaring that blacks weren't advanced enough to vote, and that Franco was the savior of Spanish civilization."

-- Paul Krugman, economist and columnist in "Prodigal intellectuals", New York Times, 19 May 2009.
[ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/prodigal-intellectuals/]

(submitted to the mailing list by Chris Doherty)