John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “In addition, all of us--and I want to stress this particularly--regard courage as perhaps the outstanding of the human…”

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.

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.

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

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