Aids Quote by Andrew Ridgeley

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

— Jean O'Leary

AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be…

— Michael Stipe

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It…

— Leslie Jordan

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

— George W. Bush

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from…

— Fred F. Fielding

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all…

— Fran Lebowitz

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

— Ryan White

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word…

— Ellen Barkin

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls,…

— David Levithan

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world…

— Madeleine Albright

“This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now.”

— Louise Penny