Yukio Hatoyama Quotations

Mr. Koizumi looked at George Bush and the Japanese people's food safety and he chose the US president. It is outrageous.

Now the echo of your anger toward the coalition system which centers on Mori and the Liberal Democratic Party is spreading across the whole country.

Our party has convinced the people that we have the potential to govern, and that we are able to become the alternative party in a bipartisan system.

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

This was a huge miss on the part of the government.

The government bowed to U.S. pressure and put President Bush's wishes ahead of the safety of Japanese consumers. I consider that a huge error of judgment.

Common sense tells us it's been set for Mr. Ichiro Ozawa to stay on.

Far more than 70 percent of the people in this country ... want the Mori government to step down just as quickly as possible.

Now is a time of crisis for our party. It is necessary to ask someone who has a lot of experience to take over and do the job.

This is a unilateral vote without sufficient debate and discussions, and we can never approve of this.