For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

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

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

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

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.