"Was (...) Eigenverantwortung nennt, ist nichts anderes, als kranke Menschen einer unkontrollierten und unkontrollierbaren Übermacht (...) der Leistungsaufschwätzer auszuliefern."
"A person’s access to medical care should not turn on just how skilled he is as an economic creature. While some of us are smarter, taller, and quicker than others, as human beings we are equal."
"It is my privilege and duty to care for people who come to see me ---- as patients. There is a respect involved with that term which is absent from the term consumer, and which is important in maintaining the dignity of the individual."
"If you ever find yourself in complete agreement with the public, especially when "public" includes people you wanted to murder in the last election, then your position is not only wrong, it's not even yours."