In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being I would like to express my sympathies and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes but in peace are only fit for fools.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny very verbal very clever very witty.