My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.