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

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

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

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

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

It's up to history to judge.

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.