John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The merits of the proposals for permanent legislation I have recommended are well-established.”

I regard it as serious.

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

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

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.