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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV Quotes

1918–2006

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV (4 July 1918 – 10 September 2006) was the King of Tonga from 16 December 1965 until his death in 2006. He was the eldest son of Queen Sālote Tupou III and served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 1949 to 1965.

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My people love me. I love them and care for them. It is as simple as that.

Until I arrived in America, I never knew that Amazing Grace could be sung so many times in one day.

However the aim of the people's representatives (today) is to form an opposition so that there will always be debates and confrontation which could result in the house being not able to do any work.

I find I can control my weight quite easily just by eating a lot of soup. I would say that I'm down to, oh, about 360 pounds.

The intelligentsia are not the best campaigners. We have not had one person with a degree elected — they have all been appointed by me.

We have nothing to do with the relationship between the governments of the two Chinas [PRC and ROC], their relationship is their own affair. We keep good relations with both Chinas, and we are working with both of them.

Yes, I have just ordered one [satellite dish] for the palace in Nuku‘alofa. It is being shipped from Seattle now. I shall be a regular watcher of CNN.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.