John Kennedy actually said...

"We are concerned with the progress of this country."

"But we ought to do something about it--this afternoon."

"There are those who say that the job is done, that the function of the federal Government is not to govern, that all the things that had to be done were done in the thirties and the forties, and that ..."

"The power given to the President of the United States, under the Constitution, particularly that of war and peace, is as great a power and in many senses more than man could possibly desire."