I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader..

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food..

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

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

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….

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country..

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

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..

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it ba….

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you..

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out..

To kill the grass you must also remove the root.

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

The sick are victims of their own imagination..