John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that the people of the…”

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.

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

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

I regard it as serious.