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

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

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.

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

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

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

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

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

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

Hunger is the most effective disease.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

Everyone comes to this world with one great purpose. That is to serve others.

Be careful when you set intentions

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.