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.

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

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.

Hunger is the most effective disease.

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

It's up to history to judge.

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