“[I'm as naïve] as a child sometimes. People think I'm like Machiavelli. And yet I'm an even bigger sucker than Machiavelli was… In diplomatic manoevering, I seem devious and diabolical in my intentions, when in reality I'm not even that clever.”

— Norodom Sihanouk

Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 113.
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“[I'm as naïve] as a child sometimes. People think I'm like Machiavelli. And yet I'm an even bigger sucker than Machiavelli was… In diplomatic manoevering, I seem devious and diabolical in my intentions, when in reality I'm not even that clever.”

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