“I’m sure the time will come when everyone can get together and talk with a smile.”

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster.

History is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

There isn’t anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

A nation will not be vitalized unless its regions are vitalized.

Japan and Europe will work hand in hand to create an international order in the era of Corona.

I think what is meant by animal spirits is to be pro-active on all things that you do.

I hope that you will raise your face and move forward to make a new start in your life.

With deep repentance in my heart, I stood there in silent prayers for some time.

There is no revival of Japan.

Evacuation centres should let anyone in who has come to evacuate, we will look into the facts and take appropriate measures.

I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results.

The future of Japan’s economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

If you want to recruit good human resources, you really have to improve the wage conditions or fail to hire anyone suitable.

Japan is in the process of regaining this animal spirit.

In the future, we will work to establish a system of seven aircraft and strengthen the use of satellite data in order to realize automation of agricultural work, unmanned delivery by drone, and enhancement of disaster response capabilities.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

You have to know within yourself that you can do this.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect anyone else to?? You are your own worst enemy! Once you overcome yourself, then no one can stop you.

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.