Hunger is the most effective disease.

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

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

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