Barack Obama Quotes About Aids

• If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sincere, Condom

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

  Barack Obama

  Purpose, Poverty, Aids

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2009.

• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Pakistan, Aids

  Source: www.today.com

• Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Cutting, College

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.48, Canongate Books

• I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

• We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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