Pat Buchanan Quotes

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS.

Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being and the reality of death. It has forced us into a realization that we must cherish every moment of the glorious experience of this thing we call life. We are learning to value our own lives of our loved ones as if any moment may be the last.

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

In the name of rolling back AIDS we've inundated this country with condoms.

I thought, wait and see—maybe it [AIDS] is not as hot as some are making it appear. I definitely admit to a gross underestimate. We're running scared.

You can’t do anything about HIV-AIDS unless you are willing to talk about condoms.

In our present day, our Lord God has given us a grand warning in the form of AIDS. A warning to those who subject their bodies to such defilement. Unfortunately people are no longer fearful, even of such a dreadful disease.

HIV AIDS is a preventable disease and should never be a source of shame!

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There is no shame in being tested for AIDS. It’s an important thing.

You can’t have a campaign against AIDS that emphasizes global abstinence.