John Kennedy actually said...

I asked Mr. Black if he would undertake to see if a solution was possible in this most difficult and delicate problem.

The President's News Conference

01/23/1962

More John Kennedy Quotes

Peace is not going to be won by merely talking about it.

It is a great country, but I think we can do better.

The friendship between the people of China and the United States is too firmly founded, and too deeply rooted, to be interrupted by the acts...

The Chinese people, by long tradition, are devoted to ideas of freedom and self-government.