John Kennedy actually said...

"We started behind."

"The effort that we and you are making in common is to defend our countries, defend our peace, defend the vital interests of the free world in the strong belief that in time the disease of liberty, as ..."

"This kind of joint community effort, the community of free nations, would have been regarded as impossible 2 decades ago, but now we take it very much for granted."

"I don't think that we can exaggerate the great advantage which the Soviet Union secured in the fifties by being first in space."