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.

Hunger is the most effective disease.

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

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

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 other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.

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

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.