Joseph A. Califano Jr. Quotes

You can’t do anything about HIV-AIDS unless you are willing to talk about condoms.

In the name of rolling back AIDS we've inundated this country with condoms.

Let us be brave and change our life style. Let us stick to our single partners and stop over-indulging. If we cannot do it, let us use condoms.

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

We all want abstinence. And if I knew how to get abstinence I would do whatever it takes to do that ... Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

You can’t have a campaign against AIDS that emphasizes global abstinence.

She May Look Clean --But pick-ups, good-time girls and prostitutes Spread Syphilis and Gonorrhea You can't beat the Axis if you get VD

Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

The condom has saved so many lives, and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse.

We can win a war in 100 days but we can't teach our people how to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

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

I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.