John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I can assure you that if I am successful on this occasion, the same spirit will move us, the same spirit forward.”

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

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

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.