Pol Pot: Quotes about people

Pol Pot was former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Pol Pot: 20 quotes3 likes

“First, I would like to tell you that I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look at me, am I savage person? My conscience is clear.”

Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“Tuol Sleng was a Vietnamese exhibition; a journalist wrote that. People talk about Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng, Toul Sleng, but when we look at the pictures, the pictures are the same. When I first heard about Tuol Sleng, it was on VOA [Voice of America]. I listened twice.”

Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“Our policy was to provide an affluent life for the people. There were mistakes made in carrying it out. Several thousand people may have died.”

Interview with Robert Whytman for The Guardian (11 December 1979)

“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.”

Nate Thayer interview (1997)