Institute for Continuing Professional Development

Dr. Philipp Rösler
Federal Minister of Health

"Health in Germany – a special topic"

Thus, the art of politics is indeed to develop fundamental thoughts – and many fail in this already – but if you do have fundamental ideas and thoughts you must then try to transfer them to reality and in doing so not simply ignore people or existing structures. Otherwise politics will change from the basic ideal to an ideology because you think you now must implement what you once thought out at the conference table – cost what it may. That this is not possible in a democracy makes democracy so trying at times, but, in the end, is quite a good thing.