Okinawa quotes:

Send

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. -- Eisaku Sato
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away. -- Mel Tillis
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications. -- Ed Royce
If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America. -- Happy Chandler
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full. -- Michael Pollan
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away." -- Mel Tillis
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa. -- S. Jay Olshansky
. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. -- Howard Baker
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me. -- Sam Hamill
Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. -- Yoshihiko Noda
I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for. -- Tim Hunt
Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends. -- Tucker Elliot
It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own views about policy out there. I've spent a good bit of time in this region as a journalist. -- Jim Webb

Send