John Kennedy actually said...

We are allies in the only war we seek--the war against poverty, hunger, disease, and ignorance in our own countries, and around the world.

I am grateful for your invitation and I am happy to be here.

Our Alliance was founded to deter a new war; it must now find the way to a new peace.

It is in this spirit that I come to Cologne to see the best of the past, and the most promising of the future.