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Pol Pot
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“Question 4: Why are your cities deserted today. Why have you abolished the role of money, the system of monthly wages, and the trade network? Answer (Pol Pot): We had to ask the people to go and live in the countryside in order to solve the food problem. … Staying in the cities meant starvation… As for the question of money … It is up to the people. If the people want to use money again, we will use money again. If they see that it is not necessary, it is up to them.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Yugoslav journalists (4/17/78), Journal of Contemporary Asia, 8 (3) (1978)
“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elizabeth Becker (22 December 1978), quoted in "Pol Pot remembered", BBC News (20 April 1998)
“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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Robert Whytman for The Guardian (11 December 1979)
“The standard of the [[Russian Revolution|[Bolshevik] revolution]] of November 7, 1917, was raised very high, but Khrushchev pulled it down. The standard of Mao's [[Chinese Civil War|[Chinese] revolution]] of 1949 stands high until now, but it has faded and is wavering: it is no longer firm. The standard of the [Cambodian] revolution of April 17, 1975, raised by Comrade Pol Pot, is brilliant red, full of determination, wonderfully firm and wonderfully clear-sighted. The whole world admires us, sings our praises and learns from us.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything I did, I did for my country.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tuol Sleng was a Vietnamese exhibition; a journalist wrote that. People talk about Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng, Tuol 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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source