The French Colonial, you know... did not export too much their ideal of d—of democracy outside of the French frontier. Now, with the American people, you export too much your democracy and your... freedom, you know, all that, your way of life and you want to impose that uh in the country like Vietnam, it doesn — it doesn't, it cannot work. But, in some way, we better adapt and not adopt what you have.
Interview with Nguyen Khanh (1981)