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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.

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

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

The newspapers were saying, 'You have AIDS.' They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

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

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.