"I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what."

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Source : " Japanese nationalist tipped to be PM, raising fears of tensions with China" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

Shinzo Abe

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“It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.”
“The coach is first of all a teacher.”
“Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.”
“I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.”

Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.150, Broadway Books
“I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.”
“There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.”

Source : "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.
“I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.”
“There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.”

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