Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other han….

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, th….

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people..

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975..

For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was….

The sick are victims of their own imagination..

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse..

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear..

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies..

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication..

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake..

To kill the grass you must also remove the root.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow..

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people..

Hunger is the most effective disease..

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that..

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear..

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside ou….

There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the ot….

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia..

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die..