"It's taken a long time, but we have at last reached the starting line.This is by no means the destination. At long last we are able to move politics, to create a new kind of politics that will fulfil the expectations of the people."Japan's next leader Yukio Hatoyama

「儘管花了很長的時間，但我們終於站到起跑線上，這決非終點。我們終於能夠推動政治，創造能滿足人民期待的新形態政治。」

─日本下任首相鳩山由紀夫