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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

— Larry Kramer

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✓Similar Perspectives

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

— Susan Sontag

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 is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

— Niki de St. Phalle

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

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

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

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

— Maria Mitchell

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

— Sarah Polley

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

— Franklin Graham

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

— Jeremiah Wright

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