I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.
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 Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.