What’s important for us is to make December a month in which we can proudly declare that we have won in every struggle, accomplished everything we needed to do and have done our best throughout the year. …Mr. Toda said, “Shiwasu literally means ‘the teacher is running.” I know you’re all busy, but I myself am running at full speed. Please all do your best for kosen-rufu.” Mr. Toda really did run at full speed for the sake of kosen-rufu, just as he said. I know how he felt. I, too am running full speed, 365 days a year.

January 11, 2008, World Tribune, p. 2