Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
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.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.