John F. Kennedy: “I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.”

Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty.

For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.