John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “So, Mr. Secretary, before all the members of your family and friends from not only Cleveland, but all parts of the…”

I think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady.

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.

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