John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I do not regard the first man in space as a sign of the weakening of the free world.”

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.

I regard it as serious.

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 think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady.