Agenda Quote by Barton Gellman

“In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan’s legacy is one of silence,”

— David Talbot

It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both…

— Hillary Clinton

We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay…

— Larry Kramer

“For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.”

— John Irving

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

— Anonymous

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think…

— Janis Ian

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

— Camille Paglia

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was…

— Annie Lennox

“In Skitka’s study, liberals and conservatives were asked about a scenario in which four different groups of people had contracted AIDS in a variety…

— Chris C. Mooney

“Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers, but both…

— Sarah Schulman

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

— Tony Snow

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once,…

— Edmund White