I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.
Hunger is the most effective disease.
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
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.