“To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the”

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.”