I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

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.

Hunger is the most effective disease.