"I am called the King, but my duties, if you have noticed, it isn't a duty of a King. It is something that is quite different or difficult to define. I do things, I think that will be useful and that's all."
"If you ask me what I had in mind what the plan I had, I had no plan, just like I am today, we are going to have something, and we are going to do it. We don't know what the something is, but we are going to do something that is good. That is the plan or the spirit."
ในหลวง: "They are very happy when somebody comes and knows about their village."
ผู้สัมภาษณ์: "You go everywhere with this map, I notice. Not this particular one but there is... Is there never a map in your hand?"
ในหลวง: "I try to have a map so that I know where I'm going. And they are happy when they know that the official map is... that their village is on the map."
ผู้สัมภาษณ์: "Are there some occasions that people live in villages that aren't mapped, or they have the wrong name?
ในหลวง: "That is what happens now."
ผู้สัมภาษณ์: "What? What's happened?"
ในหลวง: "There's a village that has no name... and I put a name on it."