Sarah Silverman Quotes

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

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

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.

A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

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.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.

I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

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.

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

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

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