John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is a great country, but I think we can do better.”

I regard it as serious.

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

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.

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