John Kennedy actually said...

"We can no longer afford the luxury of endless debate over all the complicated and sensitive questions raised by each new proposal on Federal participation in education."

"The proper Federal role is to identify national education goals and to help local, state and private authorities build the necessary roads to reach those goals."

"Education is the keystone in the arch of freedom and progress."

"It has, in your phrase, been 'in accordance with the time honored conservation principle of effecting the maximum good for the maximum number.'"