John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want to express my appreciation to all of you for your welcome.”

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.