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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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