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If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

— Jean O'Leary

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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

— Larry Kramer

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

— Bernie Sanders

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

— Edmund White

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

— Jeremiah Wright

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

— Bono

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

— Yusuf Hamied

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

— Michele Bachmann

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

— Anthony Fauci

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

— Elizabeth Taylor

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