John Kennedy actually said...

"I don't expect that the United States will be more beloved, but I would hope that we could get more done."

"It will be independent in moments of great national peril, which is really the only time you consider using nuclear weapons anyway."

"Well, I think it would seem to me that if anybody bothered to read the pact in detail--we made several offers to the British."

"Every nation is conscious that there may be a moment when it is isolated and when its national interests are involved."