John Kennedy actually said...

We must do more, consistent with our responsibilities for leadership of the free world, to stem the outward flow of dollars from Government programs.

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting a Report on Balance of Payments.

03/27/1962

More John Kennedy Quotes

If you are concerned with the Republican tendency to react instead of act - to become preoccupied with only responding to communism instead ...

I think we can do a better job than has been done in recent years.

I am asking this generation of Americans in 1960 to do the same, to do in its time what those generations before us did, to maintain freedom...

The summit meeting was a fiasco, and our President was insulted in a manner every American resented.