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 hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

It's up to history to judge.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

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

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