John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The time has come for these groups to put the national interest first.”

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.

We are not planning to trade with Red China in view of the policy that Red China pursues.

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