"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."

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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."

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