John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We have therefore been obliged to recover not only from the recession of 1960-61, but also from the recession of 1958.”

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.

And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.

I regard it as serious.

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