John F. Kennedy: “Our success in world affairs has long depended in part upon foreign confidence in our ability to pay.”

No policeman is universally popular--particularly when he uses his stick to restore law and order on his beat.

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.