John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I strongly recommend early enactment of this legislation by the Congress.”

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

I regard it as serious.

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.