John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I ask the support of all those who believe in progressive government, the government that goes to work.”

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

I regard it as serious.

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