Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget.
Kennedy asserts that merit in public service should be based on performance, not position.
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But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.
But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.
Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris.