Reform is always a challenge, as it requires us to confront the status quo. But that is no justification for inaction,

This is the administration to continue reform, ... Even after I leave in September of next year, I do not think that someone who diverts from Koizumi's reform policy will become the next prime minister.

If we cannot achieve postal reform, then what kind of administrative reforms can we do in the future? ... Politics is not to benefit a limited number of people, but it's for the happiness of all the people.

Even after Galileo was found guilty of heresy, he still said, 'The Earth moves,

I think this is an important report which allows for stable imperial succession,

I have been pressing for wide-ranging structural reforms in areas such as finance, taxation, regulation and expenditure, in order to revive and move forward our country since I took office,