John F. Kennedy: “For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.”

This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter.

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

There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus.

But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.