(Context: Vietnam is being threatened by an invasion from both the French and the Chinese and Ho Chi Minh says he would prefer being invaded by the French.)

Ho Chi Minh: "You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life."

Source: "Vietnam a History" - Stanley Karnow, 1983, Penguin Books, etc. etc.

Haha I just found that extremely funny. I don't know. I suppose anything and everything becomes funny once you've been staring at history books for 6 hours.