To kill the grass you must also remove the root

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

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.

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.

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

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.