"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."

“Biography of Comrade Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea”

“Pol Pot remembered " by Elizabeth Becker, at BBC News”

“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

“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.”

“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”

“Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.”