This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

Someone once told me to never dream. I said NEVER SAY NEVER

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.