37 Quotes by Katsuya Okada

I think our party members staked (the party's future) on the Maehara's youth and ability ... It is utterly necessary for each DPJ lawmaker and other rank-and-file members to back the new leader and stick together.

The overall situation has now become clear ... the DPJ has suffered a great setback.

True reform can only happen with a change in government.

We've been steadily making efforts for this day. Now we have finally came to this opportunity to change the government.

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.

Despite running our campaign with our priority on manifestoes and policies, we failed to secure support from the voters,

This country will not change without a change of government,

There is no time left. We must change the administration in order to ensure the success of the reform initiatives.

The biggest reason for our defeat is that we lost a lot of seats in urban areas where we were supposed have major support,