"We will build a truly independent, sovereign, peaceful, neutral, and non-aligned Cambodia."

"The old society was corrupt and decadent."

"It is better to kill ten innocent people than to let one enemy escape."

"The Vietnamese never asked themselves, any more than had the French, whether the Cambodians wanted the new system they were introducing. They acted in the unassailable certitude of a superior truth."

"The revolution must be clean, without compromise."