We, we respect very much what the American want to do uh... but, you know sometime the American way of life and the... uh American democracy maybe uh cannot work in a country like mine, you know, in South Vietnam. Uh... so, we, we can have the principle and adapt that in the country but we cannot adapt what you have here, you know, eh two houses, all that stuff, you know, and changing the president every four year. You have many people here who can be leader of the country. We have a few in Vietnam, a few who can uh you know uh lead the country because education, because the training, because all that uh, background that we must have, you know.

Interview with Nguyen Khanh (1981)