Hun Sen Quotations

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny,

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

If we look at a wider canvas, humanity has witnessed unimaginable, enormous and immeasurable changes and progress in the last one thousand years.

He has accused me of being a killer. Now if he has the guts, he should come back to serve his prison sentence as convicted.

Our people have been transformed from rice and slash-and-burn farmers into workers and owners of the family rubber plantation.

Suspension is possible only if the case has not yet entered its investigation phase. So neither suspension nor withdrawal (of the cases) is possible.

My only request is that I want to be a normal citizen. I don't need anything. I would like to recognize the Royal Government and the policy of the Royal Government and the constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia,

I would like to warmly welcome the two personalities and I hope this decision made by the two personalities will become a mobilization of strength for national reconstruction and peace,

entering into the best stage of the history.

Technological revolution that we witnessed in the last century has gone so far for our human moral to catch up with.

Our situation can get ... serious, ... The time is coming.

A court must be set up on the advice of national and international lawyers who are currently conducting their work, ... I am one among many people who support an investigation into the genocidal regime of Pol Pot, which must be punished.

one guy, a United Nations representative, gave a press interview. He came just for money. He regarded Cambodians as thieves.

Any pressure on the government from the international community will be worthless, because on the contrary it will only make the jailed man stay in jail longer,

It is the intention of the CPP, and I think the king as well, to speed up the formation of the new government,

The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is finally closed.

I want to send him to an international court, ... This is an international problem.

I'll decide not to enter, because I didn't die by not joining ASEAN before.

If we bring them to trial, it will not benefit the nation, it will only mean a return to civil war, ... We should dig a hole and bury the past and look toward the future.

Cambodia is still very happy because we became a full member of ASEAN. For us, we count it as an admission. The marriage ceremony has been organized. Now we have to wait for the registration.

Cambodia is now a fully integrated country without rebels or separatists and without internal strife or conflict for the first time in many decades.

I can assure you that the demonstrators had a number of agent provocateurs who were anything but peaceful and that our security personnel acted with great restraint, acting forceful only when forced to do so by the mob,

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

You coward, lay down your arms before your head gets cut off,

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979, ... That's it.

The effect of corruption that we should not overlook is the lost of public confidence in the government which is a cause to weaken national unity and impede economic development,

The king is staying here, working here with us,