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

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

It's up to history to judge.

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

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

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

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.