I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.