“America is the most magnanimous of all imperial powers that have ever existed.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

"What's So Great about America" http://www.hoover.org/research/whats-so-great-about-america, Hoover Digest (30 July 2002).

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Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author 1961

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