John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want us to demonstrate that we can be first; not, if or but or when, but first, now, period.”

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

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

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

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.