Atsuko Abe Quotes (6 Quotes)

You are born to your position, ... What do you know of struggle, of triumph

If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.

Forgive me, Excellency. The fact you do not know is that Japan also is a nuclear power. I am convinced that Russia will not risk nuclear war to retain a wasteland that has never earned her a single yen of profit.

Our hour has come, ... We are a small island nation, placed by the gods beside a growing Chinese giant. We must have oil.