My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. ↗
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. ↗
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing. ↗
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government. ↗