"Es ist die Tragik jeder Demokratie, dass bei uns jeder seine Meinung öffentlich vertreten kann und dass man politisch Verantwortliche in einer Demokratie schützen muss. In Diktaturen würde so etwas nicht passieren."
"If anyone is to blame for moving from a professional contract to a jump-through-the-hoops contract it is the government. All this comes, of course, from listening to management consultants who seem to think that people will work only for money and have no concept of professionalism. Professionalism is under threat. It is very sad."
"Wir brauchen einen Wettbewerb um die besten Leistungen. Gleichzeitig müssen wir verhindern, dass es sich finanziell lohnt, mehr kranke Patienten zu haben."
"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism."