John Kennedy actually said...

"Well, I think it would seem to me that if anybody bothered to read the pact in detail--we made several offers to the British."

"So Skybolt is the top of the art of missilery."

"In any case, I felt that the offer we made to the British was in keeping with both our technical and moral obligations to them."

"Every nation is conscious that there may be a moment when it is isolated and when its national interests are involved."