Latest Pol Pot Quotes from Interviews

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

  Pol Pot

  Sick, Remains, Dies

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

• The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

  Pol Pot

  Wanted, Vietnamese, Cambodia

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

• 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.

  Pol Pot

  Baby, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

• I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

  Pol Pot

  Struggle, Satisfied, Cambodia

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

• 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.

  Pol Pot

  Mistake, Responsibility, Enemy

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

• I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

  Pol Pot

  Struggle, People

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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

  Pol Pot

  Savages, Looks, Look At Me

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com