I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
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.
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.