Seiji Maehara quotes

“I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.”
-- Seiji Maehara

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“I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.”
-- Seiji Maehara

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“While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.”
-- Seiji Maehara

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“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”

“I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.”

Source : "Thai opposition views new election" by Ram Ramgopal, edition.cnn.com. April 4, 2006.

“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.”

“A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.”

“I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.”

“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”

“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).”