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Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone. -- Hun Sen
I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. -- Winston Churchill
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. -- Ed Bradley
I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually. -- Chath Piersath
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. -- Ed Bradley
Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. -- Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience. -- William Shawcross
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. -- Emma Bonino
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam." -- Jean Marie Le Pen
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia. -- Pol Pot
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. -- Noam Chomsky
I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind. -- Serinda Swan
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. -- Miep Gies
I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices. -- Dith Pran
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
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. -- Sophal Ear
I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial. -- Jello Biafra
Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid? -- Gerald R. Ford
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. -- Hun Sen
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
For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia]. -- Angelina Jolie
In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive. -- Loung Ung
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma. -- Alan Bishop
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia . He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. -- Henry A. Kissinger
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences. -- Pete du Pont
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. -- Hun Sen
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. -- Allyson Schwartz
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support. -- AnnaLynne McCord
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. -- William Kunstler
I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs. -- Henry Rollins
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. -- Norodom Sihanouk
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide. -- Noam Chomsky
As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again. -- Paul Theroux
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia. -- Alan Lightman
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling. -- Quincy Jones
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken. -- Richard M. Nixon
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video. -- Pico Iyer
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. -- Brad Pitt
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. -- George Galloway
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. -- William Kunstler
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam. -- Martin Jacques
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory. -- Glenn Reynolds
I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily. -- Anne Elizabeth Moore
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia. -- Charley Reese
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. -- Angelina Jolie
You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields. -- Sophal Ear
We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are. -- Prince Fielder
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people â?? by us and also by the enemy â?? but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now. -- Pol Pot
I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went to fourth grade wearing a Nixon-Lodge button in the fall of 1960, through my college years, which overlapped with Kent State, Cambodia, the China trip and all the rest. -- Thomas Mallon
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. -- John Negroponte
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. -- Lisa See

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