安倍首相「初心忘れず課題に取り組む」　通算在職最長で

　安倍晋三首相は２０日午前、通算在職日数が憲政史上最長となったことを受け、「責任の重さをかみしめながら、薄氷を踏む思いで緊張感を持って歩みを始めた初心を忘れず、全身全霊で政策課題に取り組んでいきたい」と語った。首相官邸で記者団の質問に答えた。
　首相は「かつては毎年のように政権がかわり、重要な政策課題も置き去りにされた。政治を安定させようというのが国民の声だった」と指摘。「短命に終わった第１次政権の深い反省の上に、政治を安定させるため全力を尽くしてきた。その積み重ねによってきょうを迎えることができた」と政権復帰後の歩みを振り返った。（2019/11/20-10:03）

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to keep his initial enthusiasm on Wednesday, as his total tenure exceeded the time in office of any of his predecessors the same day.
   "I'll devote myself body and soul to addressing policy challenges while feeling the weight of my responsibility and remembering the early days when I maintained a sense of tension as if I were walking on thin ice," Abe told reporters.
   Abe said that people in the country were hoping for stable government as they saw a change of prime minister almost every year before his return to power in December 2012. His first administration lasted only a year through September 2007.
   "Reflecting deeply on my short-lived first administration, I've been making every effort to stabilize politics," Abe said. "The continued efforts allowed me to have this day."
   Among mounting issues facing his administration, the prime minister cited the need to pull the country fully out of deflation, respond to its graying society, wrap up the post-World War II diplomacy and revise the Constitution.