History Quote by David Talbot Download Open image ““In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan’s legacy is one of silence,”” — David Talbot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“I have intimate knowledge of what it was like to be young and uneasy and outraged under Reagan. My high school was 1980s America… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people” — Tip O'Neill Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan” — Barbara Post-Askin Copy Share Image
Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“It was like somebody had sprinkled fairy dust on the whole city,” said Cheryl Bertelli, one of Maud’s delirious patrons.” — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time -… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“city’s anthem, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for “the city by… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image